NLA Discussion:Capitalism is a working system, people are...

[rkrawiec at mindspring.com]

How's that go? ARISE,YOU PRISONERS OF OPPRESSION!

Actually, not everyone who is critical of capitalism comes at it from a
'psuedo-socialist' perspective.  There's a long deep history of
anti-capitalism in Buddhist and Christian communities.  If I remember
correctly, even the Catholic pope condemned capitalism and marxism as
co-equal evils.

rk
-----Original Message-----
From: David Baker <David_Baker at ccmail.wiu.edu>
To: nla at world.std.com <nla at world.std.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:47 PM
Subject: NLA Discussion:Capitalism is a working system, people ar


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>To maybe add a voice for those dirty rotten capatilist of whom we think
have no conscience, the vast majority of those people in the six chimney
houses earned that money themselves by taking uncertain risk in the
capitalist society and deserve to be able to spend that money any way that
they like.  Certainly, I would like to see them spend more on altruistic
causes, but I certainly am not going to turn up my nose at them in some
psuedo-socialist stance chiding them for not giving that money to these
causes.
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>Author:  nla at europe.std.com at Internet
>Date:    11/17/99 12:51 PM
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>>, it is often those same people
>>who disproportionately fund and tirelessly work for social causes.
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>Actually, every study I've seen on giving shows that the people with the
>least money give the highest percentage to charitable causes, and the
people
>with the largest incomes give the smallest percentage, and what they do
>contribute often goes, at least in the arts, to support orchestras, art
>museums, i.e. institutions that traditionally serve upper income people,
>those like themselves.
>rk
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>From: Rsrchjoey at aol.com <Rsrchjoey at aol.com>
>To: nla at world.std.com <nla at world.std.com>
>Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:41 AM
>Subject: NLA Discussion:Capitalism is a working system, people are
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>>Catherine King writes:
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>>> However, the lack of moral "enlightenment" in those six-chimney
>>> homes, and the quiet avoidance in our corporate boardrooms, should not
go
>>> unremarked.   Where creating a working economy is part of our
>success,this
>>> quiet greed is a big part of our failure.
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>>I think we ought to refrain from broad over-generalizations based on
>>"symbols".  Just because someone lives in a "six-chimney home" does not
>mean
>>that they lack "moral enlightenment".  Indeed, it is often those same
>people
>>who disproportionately fund and tirelessly work for social causes.  I
>cannot
>>speak with the same conviction for many corporations, but I know there are
>>those that have wonderful policies and programs which benefit those less
>>fortunate.
>>
>>Jo Ann Doino-Ingersoll
>>Strategic Research
>>Mahwah, NJ
>>RsrchJoey at aol.com
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