Originally posted by Greadius
And business' spend a lot of money to clean up their messes, due to tax incentives, enviromental protection laws, and good public relations.
Excatly. Only when they will profit from it some way. If there is no incentive...they could care less about their grandchildren.
Examples, please? I haven't heard of other serious attempts... except from the tin-foil hat crowd.
I believe it was in the 60ies that a company built the Steam Powered car. This would obviously crush the oil companies.....so they bought all the patents, and didn't allow anyone to construct it. Such a shame....we could have flying cars and robot maids now.
If I worked in the medical field I'd be insulted by your pessimism for the proffession and their intent. Capitalism doesn't strip a person of humanity.
I should have been clearer....a person has intergrity, intelligence, and honor. People don't. I was refering more to insurance companies...like HMO's that only allow so much treatment, and are constantally reduce coverage while increasing preimums. Most doctors do their job because they are afriad of mal-practice suits.

And some aren't even afriad of that.
Doctors that have try integrity don't make the big bucks...they work in small walk-in clinics, of foregin countries.....places normal doctors don't want to work because the pay is low, and conditions bad. I'll help mankind as long as I keep my 3 cars and mansion.

A line! As long as you don't die waiting in line you're fine!!
Same thing happens in capitalist America too....waiting for a blood transfusion...oh...you don't have insurance.....please wait while we check it out...then your dead!
What happened to the line? Hey, and if they don't cure ANYONE and just to a shoddy job, they STILL get paid. Heck, they get paid as much for doing warehouse security and sleeping on the job; screw this doctor gig.
Are you dense? A garabage man and a doctor would not get equal wages. In my Communism (and it only makes sence to me....) Everyone gets the same basic things. House, food, clothes for an entire year. If you work at a job deamed "harder" or "more skillful" or "more essential" then you would get paid more. Instead of an extra $5000 a year over the necessities for the garbage man, the Doctor might get $7000.
So there would still be incentive.....just everyone would start at the same level...and could make themself into what they want.
The key is to let go of your Capitalist thinking that money is needed for everything.
Money doesn't work in Communism. And if you can't get past that step...then you will never get Communism. Not saying that your stuck of something....it's just a general FYI.
Ever been to a Communist country?
Sure..Canada.
At least....that's what some Americans tell me.
The pains of a capitalist economy and full employment! In other nations they have huge unemployment; in America they hire an incompetent drug addict to fill a position they are so desperate for employees.
You think that is good?
He should be forced into rehab, and stripped of his job until he's better. I can think of many people for that job....but the problem at work is incompetent management...more on that in a minute.
I thought something smelled fishy... how can the company be in business if it has lost money for 18 years? Is it government subsidized??
According to everything I know about capitalism, if you loose money you go out of business; that one must be artificially propped up (like state run industries would be), which would explain that complete incompetance and indifference from management.
You see...another wonder of American Capitalism.
The Haas family owns many businesses in the US. Where I work is one of them. When the parents got older, they turned the businesses over to the kids. One kid got the auto manufacturing plants, the other got the plastics making plants. The Auto Company has been HUGELY successful. Going from 1 plant to 9. The Plastics Company is essentially a write off for the family. Shrinking from 3 plants to 1. If our company makes money....then they have to pay taxes on that money. So our company buys stuff...(like warehouses) and sells it to the other company for $1. Nice and legal.....but very unethicial.....like most of Capitalist America.