<div>How you do you reconcile your view with the reality that over the entire span of "capitalism", real wages have risen and risen and risen?</div>
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<div>I put "capitalism" in quotes, because it's a term created by Karl Marx and is a vague term used to describe a wide range of both market-based and state-influenced economic systems.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/19 Kris Notaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krisnotaro@yahoo.com">krisnotaro@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
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<td valign="top">compassion, human rights, and empathy are of course great ideals, the pinnacle of any civilized society. however capitalism is going to be rendered useless in the future because it is destructive in nature. capitalism creates a world-wide "race to the bottom" of wages. i could say more but that sums it up for me.<br>
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<div>Max More</div>
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