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<blockquote data-quote="SolidWoodPanel" data-source="post: 3367885" data-attributes="member: 68397">What exactly are these orders? I&#039;m operating daily under no pretenses of &quot;Freedom.&quot; Freedom is a masquerade in organized societies. People are bound by social contracts and indoctrinated into them as children because its passed unto them from their parents, and other influential social circle members. I&#039;m free to not drive into work on Monday. I&#039;m free to not call out. I might lose my job because of it as a consequence, but so what. My superiors are free to make the decision to replace me. If you&#039;re purely talking about Capitalism being a means for exploiting people. Sure, I agree with that. But from the master in charge, he doesn&#039;t see it that way. The master is using leverage as a means of making profit, making the most beneficial deals one can make. But Communism is by no means any better because people need figureheads for unification, for inspiration/motivation, etc. And for taking on the burden of the masses they are rewarded for it. And ultimately most are corrupted by it, and while they won&#039;t suffer, those on the bottom rung will.And if you want to take money(i.e., compensation) out of the equation, then you go ahead and research what happened before it existed. We&#039;d go Mad Max within 50 years. While I wouldn&#039;t be against having a cap on someone&#039;s income or overall net worth, or even a much closer wealth disparity as there is in many Japanese companies, I don&#039;t hate the fact that a person can spend an exorbitant amount of money on some otherwise simple pleasure because they will look to hire a truly talented person and enable them to fulfill their artistic potential</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SolidWoodPanel, post: 3367885, member: 68397"] What exactly are these orders? I'm operating daily under no pretenses of "Freedom." Freedom is a masquerade in organized societies. People are bound by social contracts and indoctrinated into them as children because its passed unto them from their parents, and other influential social circle members. I'm free to not drive into work on Monday. I'm free to not call out. I might lose my job because of it as a consequence, but so what. My superiors are free to make the decision to replace me. If you're purely talking about Capitalism being a means for exploiting people. Sure, I agree with that. But from the master in charge, he doesn't see it that way. The master is using leverage as a means of making profit, making the most beneficial deals one can make. But Communism is by no means any better because people need figureheads for unification, for inspiration/motivation, etc. And for taking on the burden of the masses they are rewarded for it. And ultimately most are corrupted by it, and while they won't suffer, those on the bottom rung will. And if you want to take money(i.e., compensation) out of the equation, then you go ahead and research what happened before it existed. We'd go Mad Max within 50 years. While I wouldn't be against having a cap on someone's income or overall net worth, or even a much closer wealth disparity as there is in many Japanese companies, I don't hate the fact that a person can spend an exorbitant amount of money on some otherwise simple pleasure because they will look to hire a truly talented person and enable them to fulfill their artistic potential [/QUOTE]

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