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https://ethicalrealism.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/considerations-for-
against-capitalism/
i. Companies
-Capitalism permits the creation of companies or business
organizations that exist separately from the people associated with
them.
-What benefits the company, what motivates the company.
iii. Competition
- When individuals mix their labor with the natural world, they are
entitled to the results
-Relying in the idea of a natural right to property is not the only way
and probably not the best way to defend capitalism.
-Another, very important argument defends capitalism in terms of
the many economic benefits the system brings, claiming that the
free and unrestrained market system that exists under capitalism is
more efficient and more productive than any other possible system
and is thus to be preferred on moral grounds.
-Smith argues that when people are left to pursue their own
interests, they will, without intending it, produce the greatest good
for all.
-Each persons individual and private pursuit of wealth resultsas if
guided by an invisible handin the most beneficial overall
organization and distribution of economic resources.
-Adam Smiths concept of the invisible hand the law of supply and
demand:
Criticisms of capitalism
Inequality