[John Atkinson]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Capitalism as it is practiced today reduces the masses to being "wage slaves" and enthrones monopolistic conglomerates that control markets and squelches competition. Too much "capitalism" as practiced today will lead to very few capitalists because wealth and the power of production will be agregated into the hands of a select few.

The answer is Distributism. Break up corporations, bring back laws that our Founders put in place to control and limit corporate power. Empower the family business owner who is being driven into being a wage slave by massive corporations he can't compete with.

A man is only free if he has both the ability and means to sustain himself.

God is clearly a Distributist.

Yep. And economies are far more alive when everyone prospers some rather than a few prospering in extremis.

My experience as a wage slave is that I always seem to have enough to barely scrape by, but never enough to actually get ahead. And that is exactly how the corporate moguls want it.

SOmebody has to run the machines and do the paperwork. And best not to let them somebodies have it too good...

Wow... I just sounded like a socialist....