| Capitalism is the best economic system on the planet | | | | There were, of course times of difficulty, mostly due |
| for being efficient at the distribution of wealth by | | | | to the decrease in the supply chain of the ever |
| turning people's needs and desires into wealth. Without | | | | growing complex economic system. The difficult times |
| any governmental intervention, the distribution of wealth | | | | mostly began with a shortage of food due to drought |
| happens naturally, with people producing goods that | | | | or other natural disaster, driving up food prices and |
| other people want, selling at a reasonable profit and | | | | causing an increasing in the price of everything |
| those people making the profit then buy goods that | | | | eventually. These difficult times lead to some unrest |
| they need and desire. As products become popular, | | | | among citizens, eventually leading to some |
| more people begin to make the items (usually of | | | | experimentation of other economic systems, such as |
| various qualities) and more and more people share the | | | | socialism. Socialism does not provide the incentives |
| wealth. I would like to take a look at the negative | | | | that the widely used capitalism has naturally and those |
| consequences of Capitalism, and there are negative | | | | experiments did not last very long. Even in difficult |
| consequences. The sheer efficiency of capitalism is | | | | times our world populations continued to grow, mostly |
| what has brought our world on the brink of no return | | | | because the difficult times were not everywhere but |
| with global warming. | | | | limited to where there was an insufficient amount of |
| Capitalism probably started as many as 10,000 years | | | | rain or where the natural disaster took place. |
| ago with the advent of agriculture. People growing the | | | | The world population continued to grow like this for |
| crops needed some way of receiving compensation | | | | 10,000 years, being fueled by agriculture and capitalism |
| for all their efforts tending and harvesting their crops. | | | | supplying the means of distributing the wealth to those |
| This allowed people to do a little bit more than just | | | | producing the goods. The population, as we all know is |
| survive but hunting and collecting food daily resulting in | | | | growing exponentially and by the 1700s the world |
| a slightly higher birth rate. This lead to a rise in | | | | population is estimated to have been approximately 8 |
| population for the first time since our species took hold | | | | hundred million people. In the early 1900s the population |
| on the earth. Agriculture allowed people to stay pretty | | | | doubled to nearly one and a half billion, then doubling |
| much in one area leading to the development of village | | | | again by 1960 to three billion, with a population today of |
| life which eventually increased in size to cities. There is | | | | over six billion people. |
| some speculation in scholars as to which came first, | | | | In the last 100 years we have seen such an increase |
| the use of tools or the advent of agriculture. However, | | | | in population, it is unprecedented in the natural world. In |
| agriculture likely began with a simple observation of the | | | | the past 100 years we have had additional help |
| type of weeds growing in the tribe's trash and | | | | besides agriculture and capitalism to aid in our living and |
| bathroom area being the same plant as was collected | | | | growing, we have added technology. Technology |
| for a few dinners the last time they were hunting and | | | | requires fuels and resources such as petrochemicals |
| gathering in that area. | | | | to keep it growing and inventing new and more |
| As the use of agriculture grew, populations grew right | | | | complex technology. This technology is increasing our |
| along with it, spreading throughout the world like a | | | | production and distribution of agriculture products, |
| creeping vine. As cities grew larger and larger, an | | | | feeding our increased population growth and also |
| infrastructure was needed which lead to an | | | | spreading the wealth to others, now around the world |
| increasingly complex society. This lead to more and | | | | and between continents. |
| more products needed to be produced for the people | | | | This has all happened while we were looking, in front |
| living in those cities and capitalism was right there | | | | of our noses. It isn't a bad thing, just something that has |
| supplying the means and incentive for people to | | | | occurred. We did not notice it mostly because it |
| produce goods for selling in the cities. This can be | | | | happened to slowly, until recently. We are noticing it |
| observed today in even in the biggest cities such as | | | | now because it effecting everything around us, |
| Bangkok, Thailand with their widely spread out "fresh | | | | including the weather. There is no arguing any more, |
| markets" supplying food to the average citizen in | | | | global warming is happening because we are burning |
| Bangkok. The money that is spent on these goods | | | | our natural resources at an unprecedented rate |
| funnels out of the city to where the crops are grown. | | | | because our population has grown that way. |