Capitalism

Capitalism is most definitely, in my opinion, a good system. It seems to work for most places; the States are doing pretty well, even with the recent crash. Also, it seems that communist places are very much failures as an economy. Monarchy's aren't fair to the people, either, and it just seems that capitalism is for the best.

Capitalism is relatively sturdy, as long as the government doesn't make any rash decisions too quickly... or constantly. The market crash that sent us into a depression was all because of the stupid decisions of the banks, lending out money without asking for credit scores or whatever. But normally, the capitalism holds the economy pretty well. I mean, Canada is doing pretty well, even though we heavily rely on the United States, who made a large mistake with the banking things a little while back. However, before all that, we were doing very well.

You know, another way to tell that capitalism is supreme is to look at many other failed economies. Communism, for instance, just doesn't work. It seems like it would on paper, but people are all just too selfish. Also, equality cannot happen when everyone works different jobs and are different people altogether. If someone works harder than another, not only to they WANT more money, but they deserve it, too. And that's why capitalism is superior. People get what they deserve - it all depends on how hard they work and on what decisions they make.

The problems with capitalism are not really that severe - the pros far outweigh the cons. The only ones I can think of are the facts that the government has little involvement, therefore it could be very close to becoming an anarchy. Another problem is that, as fair as it is to hard workers, they DO get taxed more, leaving them with some sort of equality, which isn't a fair thing. It's like Robin Hood, who was, no matter how you put it, a criminal.

Aside from all that, though, capitalism is a very good thing. It's a lot more fair than most other economies, and that's definitely a plus side. I may be biased just because we live in a mostly capitalistic society, but I truly believe that it's the best. I mean, look at our quality of life. It's pretty high, if I do say so myself - that's something you can't say for the majority of the population of un-capitalistic societies.