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capitalism we buy and sell things, that's the gist of it. An entire culture does this. There you go. Now you are capitalist. What happens when the world does this? It is capitalistic. Today we have a capitalistic world (globalization). Hoo-Ha. Why it is a cause for celebration I'm not sure.
Why everybody started buying and selling things to one another in the first place is, I think, a matter that it is kind of complicated. There is not just one reason [insert descending pitch effect]. I know that is a disappointment to you, but we have to start somewhere so let's find a place. In fact let's pose a question:
How'd we come to depend more and more upon the merchants, which is to say, the group of persons who engage in trade? They say that, today, even politics and nationalism are eclipsed by globalization, the merchant class, the so-called "bourgeoise." One answer to the question of why trade became so important is that there were more things to trade. OK, that may not be the only, or the best, answer but it's a starting point and the topic is an extremely tangled and complicated thing. To get at... So, although that is just one answer, for one question, it will have to do. For now... Now we shall discuss this in a way that is linked with technology since many of the cutting-edge purchases today are technology. They are electronics purchases for example. And I will discuss all of that for one paragraph - OK, maybe two. But just a short second one, if I need to -- that's it.
Once technology becomes available the motivation of persons, to buy the technolog,y is that they want to get more powerful. Technology is sold to make persons more powerful in the sense that each time I buy a gadget, or in fact to add more "power" to a device I have, or build a new software program in order to dominate a new market, there are two persons involved. There is a seller. He (or she) makes a bit of money; the buyer gets power. Each person, then, who buys these things, is trying to become powerful. And this was the same in the early days of trade: persons may have acquired or purchased spices, silk, and so on, but they were the same people with the same motivation. Persons who make one another more powerful are capitalists. They are engaged in a mutual benefit process, whereas, in the other method, where only one person wins, that in which there are persons who fight one another, there is a quite different institution, that of the earlier type---warriors.
So there it is, readers! We trade to become more powerful: but not kill the other guy. What the trader wants is to get personal power. Not the only answer, but...its' an answer, huh?
Why everybody started buying and selling things to one another in the first place is, I think, a matter that it is kind of complicated. There is not just one reason [insert descending pitch effect]. I know that is a disappointment to you, but we have to start somewhere so let's find a place. In fact let's pose a question:
How'd we come to depend more and more upon the merchants, which is to say, the group of persons who engage in trade? They say that, today, even politics and nationalism are eclipsed by globalization, the merchant class, the so-called "bourgeoise." One answer to the question of why trade became so important is that there were more things to trade. OK, that may not be the only, or the best, answer but it's a starting point and the topic is an extremely tangled and complicated thing. To get at... So, although that is just one answer, for one question, it will have to do. For now... Now we shall discuss this in a way that is linked with technology since many of the cutting-edge purchases today are technology. They are electronics purchases for example. And I will discuss all of that for one paragraph - OK, maybe two. But just a short second one, if I need to -- that's it.
Once technology becomes available the motivation of persons, to buy the technolog,y is that they want to get more powerful. Technology is sold to make persons more powerful in the sense that each time I buy a gadget, or in fact to add more "power" to a device I have, or build a new software program in order to dominate a new market, there are two persons involved. There is a seller. He (or she) makes a bit of money; the buyer gets power. Each person, then, who buys these things, is trying to become powerful. And this was the same in the early days of trade: persons may have acquired or purchased spices, silk, and so on, but they were the same people with the same motivation. Persons who make one another more powerful are capitalists. They are engaged in a mutual benefit process, whereas, in the other method, where only one person wins, that in which there are persons who fight one another, there is a quite different institution, that of the earlier type---warriors.
So there it is, readers! We trade to become more powerful: but not kill the other guy. What the trader wants is to get personal power. Not the only answer, but...its' an answer, huh?
so a capitalist is a person who tries to get power by buying and selling, as opposed to war, the earlier method. So, buying and selling is more fair. You are not killing anyone, but what you are doing is building a capitalist system, a capitalisticalness. This is a progressive system. So if it does not go on to the next level...
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