What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[eppie]

My main problem with capitalism as we have it now is not that there is inequality but that the division of wealth is unfair.

The guy that breaks down old ships in India or the kid that melt gold and other metals out of batteries and old printboard are working harder than most people here in the west but they will never own even only a fraction of the wealth we have....or the wealth a very normal person in europe has.

... In a communist system, the only difference would be that the guy in India would be commanded by the State to break down the ships and every person would have the same level of misery as it was in the Soviet Union.

This is BS and you know it. Please don't start using these cheap arguments. I know you have much better to contribute.
While I was watching out of the window looking at the people that sit more than 1 hour (times 2) in their car queuing every day for going back and forward to their meaningless job, I was thinking...what is misery what is happiness. You as a capitalist can't imagine people getting happiness out of other things than just money, wealth and possession. But what about the good education and understanding of arts and literature common under Russians during the cold war? What about pride in what you do instead of because of what brand of shoe you are wearing?


Anyway to get back to the argument of the kid in India. Capitalism is fun when you are born in the right family and country. Again, I am not at all proposing a communist society but please bare the differences in mind when making comments on this topic.

I am not trying to convince you; we have had this discussion many times here so I know better. But I just hope you don't get your 'facts' about communism only from a Johnson infomercial.

I am not dismissing any ideology or system I just don't think it is fair to say capitalism works when you have 5 billion people living in poverty. The fact that other systems might be worse is not an argument in that discussion.