>>Didn't really answer much did it? Capitalism, although not perfect - is the best system we have. Just take a look at what happened to Russia when they tried to live without it. The problem without it is that people, by nature, always want more. They want to make more and be able to provide more and nicer things to their families. If we all lived in fantasy land like Rick wants I guess all people would suddenly have no desires and no ambition...just be all lovey dovery. Instead you'd just have some unqualified boneheads filling potholes in the middle of the highway incorrectly and killing people as a result.
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>I do not think that what you said is true. There are countless of examples of people doing great things with little or no economic rewards, or people that rejects better income to help others. Sorry but I do not buy he idea that money is the force behind progress or success or whatever you call Capitalism (I will just call it a pyramid scheme, but that is just me :)
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>I think a good example is Tesla vs. Edison, the first one with all the great ideas that were way ahead his time, and the latter just pushing for his crappy ideas for the sole purpose of making money, very capitalistic, and wrong.

Yes all valid points - but consider if there was no financial reward at the end of the tunnel then there would of been no Edison at all. Plus many great inventions are derived as a result of previous inventions. You take financial reward out of the equation you're going to loose a lot (too much in fact) of great ideas. The whole reason we have patents here is to ensure innovation progresses. Sure there are those that are more interested in helping others vs financial rewards - but again I don't think one excludes the other. Bill Gates has reaped huge financial rewards - but in the end it's all being put towards his charity. Like I said capitalism (or even having such a thing as patents) is not a perfect system - but then again none of them are. Don't you think that it's been proven that despite it's flaws, capitalism simply works better than anything else we've tried?