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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Couldn't there be some sort of hybrid? Couldn't there be some sort of model which made the goal the furthering of humanity/knowledge/science/art/etc.? My problem with capitalism (and I must say that it is a system which has worked remarkably well over the years) is that the primary motivating factor is greed. Any system with this as the primary drive is going to have competition, gentry stratification and as Tora put it 'losers'. There is something frightfully wrong with a system when executives have become so hyper-aggressive that they take to siphoning off millions of dollars from their workers pensions and futures to purchase multiple mansions and extravagant luxuries, and don't feel the slightest twinge of guilt in doing so. There is more than enough wealth that we could all live very comfortable lives (perhaps with only a single home, and without our very own private jetliner). Certainly there must be some way to marry the benefits of a socialist system with the ample merits of a capitalist one. Couldn't we migrate the value of wealth from material possesions and power to accomplishment, prowess, serenity or some other less arbitrary commodity? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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