Democrats Have Sold Their Souls to The Devil

RE some tags and title here, my success wasn't determined by which party was in the White House. I had a little help from the Federal and State governments to get there. Thanks USA.

You know the great depression was part of the reason capitalism failed and socialism was the only way to dig out people from the woes of warn torn poverty. And your to young to remember a country that sacrificed their every day lives, cutlery and metal belongings, and stockings in the effort to win a war, let alone have such a lack of resources to gain requiring the government to enforce rations. And individuals having to live off a weekly ration. I would say capitalism can lead to all three, socialism, Marxism and communism.

Great depression was caused by people buying stock on percentage of value down payments (called margin) then when the stock failed they refused to pay the rest. Also the great dust bowl (bad farming) it had almost nothing to do with capitalism. Please learn history.
Socialism didn't get us out of the great depression. Slowly fixing our economy and changing the banking rules and planting trees every few miles did.

Due to capitalism the stock market went wild then WW2 followed. And the only way to get families out of poverty because their drafted husbands died in the war was to come up with a welfare system and survivers benefits. For knowing and having some empathy for the past is something to have because it could happen again.

I can see why your username is DumbAF...

That's what most people see and in all actuality, what everything is.

And in all reality it was a chain of events and actions that caused the great depression due to capitalism. Of course there are multiple theories by economists who pinpoint what triggered it, but int all actually it was the symptoms of capitalism run wild, to much supply not enough demand, lack of government oversight on the financial sector, and people purchasing stocks, then dumping them all at once, along with the lenders lending money for stock purchases, then the buyers defaulting, and one big member bank run that triggered a economic failure in the capitalism system, and opened the door for the need of socialism. Just saying... And in a capitalist democracy society you can have it all as long as it operates ethically with oversight, rules, and checks/balances... But so far that has yet to be seen since war was struck in the middle east. So we have problems.

No, corruption and bad decisions is not capitalism. Those same things happened in non capitalism countries. Look it up.

It is a well known discussion leaning towards capitalism causing the great depression, you can Google that and find information on the topic. But that's my 2c I can look up what you saying and still find counter information... But this is the world we live in and it's critical to look at all viewpoints.

Sure, but "a well known discussion" is not proof. Capitalism had nothing to do with it since Capitalism is just exchanging goods and services for an agreed upon currency (in that case dollars) the moment they did the whole "margin" thing it stopped being Capitalism and turned into bad credit. Which is not part of Capitalism.

Where you are wrong is the fact that capitalism still requires a government to set rules , laws and regulations, and as you are aware the value of a dollar within capitalism is rigged with the economy, rules and regulations. One reason to keep lots of money safe is to open up accounts at multiple banks and keep the accounts at the federally insured amount, this is how capitalism has required som safeguards from the past, which have actually yet been truly tested out in a real world cenero because the government has bailed out the capitalist systems banks. Capitalism is a system where individuals and corporations can own businesses, and control the supply and demand chain in the sense of production, setting a price with little government interference. What has sadly happened is that the capitalist system has bribed the government to profit and the government has bailed out entities because of bad business. Does it work? I say it's one crazy animal and ultimately the consumers as a collective entity hold the key in weather capitalism will work, or fail.

No, the government is not part of capitalism. The government is part of cronyism. See capitalism is a natural force that regulates itself. The moment you introduce government to regulate its no longer capitalism.
In the past money was minted by private guilds of coiners. Government didn't regulate it at all.

Lokiare... If the money printer is controlled by the federal reserve which is its own thing, appointed officials by the government to operate upon fiscal policy, which is controlled by the government that operates in a capitalist society, where once again business owners , individuals, and corporations can own goods and provide services that set the prices up in a economy that runs inside the bounds of capitalism, yet is tied to pay governmental requirements and file papers and operate with licenses, the government makes up a huge part of capitalism because it collects taxes and requires licenses and prints the legal tender... Now if you can get Business to accept trade, like in beads, or rocks for a good or service, and then that business turns around and pays the government with a glass bead, then that's more of the view you have on capitalism, but generally speaking, it is the ability to own a business, operate a business and set a price for goods and services with little government interference... But look at enron... That is where capitalism as a entity failed and the government stepped in. Capitalism needs a government or there would be astronomical amounts of fraud, the problem is that a government can also commit fraud as we all know. Anyone can.

I wanted to remind you of the now reality that capitalism has caused this great nation that should have had intervention sooner regarding the government. That is the ownership of land and resources. Thanks to capitalism anyone can own land and it's resources if they have the rights, and because that means anyone, it becomes a national security threat when foreign governments and entities are purchasing up America's land, water and minerals. Because capitalism allows them to. This is why even people within the government is corrupted by the purchasing power and ownership of capitalism. In the big picture of it all it's pretty ugly, but if your given the slice of the dream, and can afford to participate and be happy, it's not all that bad. Could it be worse or get worse, of course it can.

That's a problem in all systems.