Capitalism doesn't work

Let's have a look at capitalism from the practical point of view of us, the working people. The majority of us who have to sell our lives and our abilities that is our creativity to an employer. Somebody whose going to use us to make a profit. Now capitalism is a system based on profit and therefore it's a commercial system which throws up many consequences.

In a commercial system like this one and it's out there you need banking, insurance, taxation, advertising, money lending, debt collecting, the law, police, prisons, armies, navies, airforces, military industrial complexes, sales people of every different kind, weights and measures, trade and standards, customs and exiles, the gambling industry, stock exchanges and many more.

Now all this. All this work. All this social endeavour. These absolute essentials to capitalism absorbs around 80% of all social effort and produces absolutely no wealth what so ever. No food, shelter, clothing, medicine, education, art, music, dance, sport, literature, transport. All these things we need for a fulfilled and fulfilling life.

Now, get rid of the commercial system and instead of producing for profit, we can produce for human needs. Instead of having around 20% of us available to roll our sleeves up and get stuck in to volunteer to produce the goods and services needed, there would be 100% of us available. Life will be a lot easier and a lot more fulfilling for everyone.

In capitalism, with us 80% doing unnecessary work, it's four times more expensive to sell something than it is to make and we're so busy taking care of business we don't have time to take care of ourselves.

And not to mention, the wars we have in capitalism. All wars are commercial wars and are over resources, raw materials, trade routes, markets. Reformists like Steve Forbes ignore all that and they tinker with capitalism to try and make it work. It doesn't.

Capitalism working for ordinary working people, which is most of us, is like trying to get a slaughter house to run in the interests of the animals it processes. It cannot be done!