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Adam Kuebler commented on Fantasia on March 5, 2009, 10:41 PM
What a great video... I really expanded my mind here... learned a whole lot... obviously you really have no idea what drives America or what these "corporate managers" actually do.
Adam Kuebler commented on How the need to work makes a general mess of things on March 5, 2009, 10:33 PM
This idea believes that humans are naturally good and naturally hard working. This is not the case. If you were to somehow develop a system where people could survive without having to sell their labor or being forced to work. People simply wouldn't. Why would anyone farm food for the rest of the world when they could just make food for themselves and then do whatever else they want? This is idealistic, but ultimately capitalism works because its uses people's selfishness for the greater good. As to the pollution and waste argument. Large amounts of pollution have been created because people haven't cared, but as it becomes more of an issue, people care more, and pollution is reduced. To the point of governments and entrepreneurs wanting to create jobs. This is not the case, they say this yes, but they simply say what people want to here. Entrepreneurs want to create wealth and elected officials want to be re-elected. And finally about the Greek and Roman inventions compared to our own? This is ludicrous. They did develop great amounts of technology. The reason we developed much faster than them is we have built on their knowledge and we have more people working to create inventions than they did. While they were a democracy and a republic, they were also highly aristocratic. In America, anyone has the power to develop anything.
Adam Kuebler commented on Clayton Christensen on Religion and Capitalism on March 6, 2009, 1:21 AM
There have been some twisting of words here. First of all he didn't say Christianity had to be the religion, he said it had to be a religion which upheld the five principles, and had enough ability to persuade it's followers. He was also not talking about natural instinct, he was speaking of learned instinct. You learn the behavior and it becomes habit, nature, instinct. It probably wasn't the best choice of words on his part but the point remains the same. Also, Richard says that the U.S. is an exception to the rule. However, he says that we are heading in the wrong direction. We have this basis left over from our fathers but our culture is slowly corrupting and destroying it. Finally "However, I doubt that those values are central to the mess of double speak, lies and willful irrationality that passes for Christianity." and "There is nothing religious about it and no religious texts make a person pay taxes and not commit murder. Ironically both bible and Quran force people to commit murder and do other vulgar activities." You both should probably do a it more thorough research before you make statements like that. "Give to Caesar what is Caesar" and "Thou shall not murder." The other points are a bit more in depth. If you want further clarification e-mail me at atkuebler [at] yahoo [dot] com.