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I see there are two schools of thought on DU.
There are those who think greed is natural. Then there are those who think greed is something people are taught, a product of one's environment. If it is true that greed is something that is taught and encouraged with a culture that glorifies wealth and materialism, then it is also true that it can be untaught and unlearned; however, if it is true that greed is a natural part of human nature, apart of what makes us who we are, however flawed, then the best we can do is to manage it because we know we can't destroy it just as we can't destroy the ability to feel emotions like rage or happiness. I have never met a dyed-in-the-wool socialist who asserted that greed was a natural human state.
Whether or not you are a socialist or a capitalist or a mixture of the two, as most people generally are, the facts, at least to me, tell us the problem is not capitalism on the national level but capitalism on the international level. At the national level, capitalism, especially in the industrialized world, has been regulated to some degree or another. We can argue to what degree elsewhere, but the fact remains that there are laws that govern how businesses and corporations operate. In the past, this wasn't the case.
On the international level, it appears to me that there are few laws that truly govern how corporations operate or how businesses operate. It is the international level that bears examination because this is where the biggest corporations now exist. These corporations have grown so large that they have simply exceeded the legal jurisdiction to regulate them by simply moving to another country that doesn't have such regulations. If I were a multinational corporation, I could easily follow every American law on the book in the US, while I'm raping and pillaging resources in third world countries that are vulnerable, weak, or corrupt that are on the other side of the planet at the same time, and you can't do anything for the fact that what I do outside the US is not under your jurisdiction.
This is the status quo I see. It's time to rip it down, destroy it, and replace it with one that is equitable to workers everywhere in the world, not just to those who have the luck of living in the industrialized world. If capital is allowed to jump from continent to continent on a whim, then labor, the superior of capital, should also be freed to challenge it and control it wherever it goes. This "free trade" stuff pushed by neoliberals and the current economic order does not allow this to happen, and it is nothing short of an injustice, a crime against humanity that has killed tens of millions of people through poverty and starvation. It is a boondoggle for workers the world over. What's needed is fair trade, and what's needed is the freeing of labor power to confront multinational capital everywhere.
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