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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (328074)3/6/2007 7:36:00 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1577359
 
By its very nature, free enterprise manages to exclude a portion of the population from its benefits.

Not really true, even in common practice, let alone "by its very nature". Compare a poor inner city American to a North Korean, or compare a poor American in the 1920s or 30s to a Ukrainian during the forced collectivisation of agriculture, and the "man made famines" of the early twenties and early 30s. Even with the US depression the situation was much worse in the USSR.

ukrweekly.com

en.wikipedia.org

infoukes.com

Now if your not just talking about benefits, but equality of benefits, well by its very nature reality tends to exclude people from exactly equal enjoyment of the benefits of almost any system.

Again, by its very nature, capitalism is unconcerned with the well being of those people.

That much is true. Capitalism is unconcerned with their well being. Water is also unconcerned about their well being. But both tend to improve the lot of the poor.
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