{"id":46,"date":"2014-07-18T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coppercommando.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2014-07-18T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:02:16","slug":"some-people-are-purely-greedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Some People Are Purely Greedy\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disease<\/strong>: Some people are purely greedy and care nothing about others.<\/p>\n

Cure<\/strong>: Capitalism limits how much money people can make. [ed: depending on your style of capitalism<\/a> we guess]<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine the greediest person you know. For this story\u2019s purpose, his name is John. If John carried a gun and there were no laws, John would rob everyone they came across in order to acquire all the wealth he could possibly amass. In an economic system where the government has control over how the economy operates, John could form an alliance with government officials who could pass rules to force people, or entice people, to purchase items only from him. He would be able to use force, with the help of government, to give himself an advantage over other citizens.<\/p>\n

Now place John into a capitalist system where individuals are free to produce and consume as they choose and where private property rights are protected by law (John can\u2019t use a gun!). In a capitalist system the government will not step in to help John acquire his wealth by establishing an advantage over others. Since John can\u2019t rob people to acquire wealth and since he can\u2019t have government officials move him to the front line, how will he satisfy is greedy impulses?<\/p>\n

In a capitalist system where the only exchanges are voluntary exchanges, John can satisfy his greed-demon only one way: He needs to find something he can make and sell that enough people want to buy so that he can amass a fortune. The beautiful part is that even though John is rotten on the inside, every dollar he generates comes from someone buying something he sold them that they needed or wanted.<\/p>\n

The engine of capitalism that creates wealth and opportunity for all is driven by the purpose of each and every individual. Some may be greedy, some may wish only to help, some may be hedonists and some may have no particular agenda at all. Whatever their motivations, whatever their purpose, in a capitalist system the only way they can fulfill their purpose is to produce or provide something that someone else wants to have. Capitalism establishes a system where an evil person cannot gain an advantage over a decent person. Capitalism neutralizes the disease of greed within a society by not permitting the greedy person to gain an advantage over decent, caring people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disease: Some people are purely greedy and care nothing about others. Cure: Capitalism limits how much money people can make. [ed: depending on your style of capitalism we guess] Imagine the greediest person you know. For this story\u2019s purpose, his name is John. If John carried a gun and there were no laws, John would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}