tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9118409153657833547.post2135881339227410914..comments2024-02-10T02:53:47.545-06:00Comments on Do You Ever Think About Things You Do Think About?: The American DreamVinnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08955726889682177434noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9118409153657833547.post-63436482907732297782009-10-14T20:30:07.123-05:002009-10-14T20:30:07.123-05:00I wasn't the one who claimed that capitalists ...I wasn't the one who claimed that capitalists were all of the same mold, you were. You said that "no one would have claimed that you could have a proper capitalist economy in our moral climate."Vinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08955726889682177434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9118409153657833547.post-10551558554416349972009-10-14T19:28:09.518-05:002009-10-14T19:28:09.518-05:00Haven't read Rand, but I know you know better ...Haven't read Rand, but I know you know better than to think all capitalists are of one mold any more than all liberals or all Catholics think just alike.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04611311820554248004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9118409153657833547.post-68586226798034371292009-10-12T10:26:40.143-05:002009-10-12T10:26:40.143-05:00You obviously haven't read Ayn Rand's The ...You obviously haven't read Ayn Rand's <i>The Virtue of Selfishness</i>. She believed that the only morality that matters is the pursuit of self-interest. To the free market ideologues, whatever the free market produces is by definition just and moral.Vinnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08955726889682177434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9118409153657833547.post-26090661313721619722009-10-12T09:33:28.462-05:002009-10-12T09:33:28.462-05:00Hunger is not gluttony; fatigue is not sloth. A de...Hunger is not gluttony; fatigue is not sloth. A desire to make a profit is not, in itself, greed. <br /><br />The preference for free-markets over regulation is founded, at least in part, on the belief that the people in government are no less wicked than those in business and usually not as bright. <br /><br />But the right has lost sight of one important part of a properly functioning free market -- morality. For hundreds of years, no one would have claimed that you could have a proper capitalist economy in our moral climate. That people claim that now is probably a product of, well, our moral climate.ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04611311820554248004noreply@blogger.com