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If I reinvest my $106, I must receive $113 the next year. This must continue forever, or else the capitalist system will fail. This is closely related to the concept of compound interest. This also requires an exponential increase in the money supply, which eventually becomes impossible to balance with the physical system of available resources. The real difference then, is this; capitalism requires accumulation while free enterprise does not. Capitalism also requires external inputs, often coming from Peter where Paul is the capitalist. “Those who rob Peter to pay Paul, can always count on Paul for support” ─ George Bernard Shaw “Growth” must come from an expansion of the money supply, resulting in the dilution of the value of the currency (inflation). Capitalism and free enterprise are not mutually exclusive. In fact, capitalism usually rides on the back of free enterprise making them appear as one. Capitalism thus requires infinite growth. Since we live on a finite planet, this is clearly impossible. Eventually something has to give. It is not a matter of if, but only a matter of when. To believe otherwise is to believe in magic. When I was a child, compound interest seemed like magic to me. Yet any professional magician will tell you that magic is not really magic, but merely an illusion. Similar to capitalism. The characteristics of capitalism are the characteristics of the weed: overshoot and die-off. Before the weed dies it shoots out consumerism, imperialism, and planned obsolescence. These are meant to delay the demise of the weed but in the end, when it has exhausted its resources, the weed dies anyway. Capitalism must, in the end, consume its own host society. The result of practicing unchecked capitalism in the U.S. is currently consuming our Middle Class. We have all seen those movies where the crew of a steamship, when the coal is gone, rips up the decks to feed the boilers. It is clear to everyone that this can only go on for so long as there are decks to rip up. A steadily increasing return on investment, which is the very essence of capitalism, can only have a similar result. The poor people on the steamship may be hopeful of rescue by another ship. On Spaceship Earth, I do not think we can count on being rescued by, or making landfall on another planet. So it comes back to my initial comparison of capitalism and free enterprise. Free enterprise means, quite literally, freedom. Freedom to try, freedom to succeed, and freedom to fail. Capitalism (sorry, Dr. Friedman) does not mean freedom. It means slavery to the demands of return on investment; of never ending growth. Carried to its logical conclusion, in our present time it probably means turning into a society that might be characterized as high-tech feudalism. Free enterprise is a shopkeeper, capitalism is a banker. With free enterprise, we can own our wealth. With capitalism, our wealth will wind up owning us. That is the real difference. And that is our choice.
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A fine distinction and nicely made. We inhabit finite space true, and this creates limitations to expansion, but money is an abstract, even when gold backed and as long a one can invent numbers, one can expand fiat currency. Originally a unit of exchange to simplify transactions between people, it has, as any other addiction, become the objective and not the means. And as the objective of our lives, the actual overthrown by the abstract, our lives become beholden to those who be holdin’ the most. Thanks for your clarity!
Great to see people making the distinction between capitalism, (about 300 years old) and the “free market”, (as old as human civilization); althoug the above-description doesn’t seem to dig much beneath the surface.
Yes, capitalism is inherently-unstable, ever driven to grow, etc. But the main problem is that Monopo-Capitalism has always been driven by an Elite few, (industrialists) who control government (the state) to their own interests.
Because American monopo-capitalism had the advantage of stealing a resource-rich continent from the native people, there was unprecedented room to grow; so there was great opportunity for “the little guy” to prosper, (at least temporarily); but eventually, the monopolistic character of capitalism continued to re-assert itself, (banks foreclosing on small farms, the disappearance of the so-called “middle class,” etc.)
Capitalism has always been monopoly-capitalism, a class society, and the so-called “middle-class” was largely a myth; but in America, the state has been able to convince us that we were “free,” particularly with the “welfare state” over the last 75 years, (where the government borrowed the money to create the illusion of “freedom” and “prosperity,” in order to claw it all back when the banks call back the loans).
Mr. Richman is well-informed when he talks about how the terms “socialist” once had very different meanings, (at least to some). People may be surprised to know the fiercest opponents of the Bolshevic “state-communists” were anarchists… calling themselves “libertarian communists,… socialists” etc.
In fact, he’s one of the most-informed “free-market libertarians” I’ve yet heard, concerning the marxist/socialist understanding of the socialist critique of capitalism, (the discussion of the Land Enclosures is a central part of Marx’s “Das Capital”).
In response to the second last question, “What do you say to people who still blame ‘free-markets,’ Mr. Richman gives a confused response; when in it’s quite simple: the monopo-capitalist state (and media) has done a great job… confusing in our mind, capitalism with free-markets. Once you make that distinction, then the normally free-market-skeptics, (leftists, progressives, etc) can see what you’re saying, because they too recognize that the markets are not free, that they’re owned by a tiny elite, (and that this Elite has used the term “free market” as a cover for their crimes).
Good to see people from both “left” and “right” talking about our common enemy: the elite, (whether capitalist, landowner, or government bureaucrat).