主题：资本主义只能是这样的 -- uphere

奴隶主用鞭子驱使奴隶为他们劳动。

地主凭着对土地的独占迫使农民为他们劳动。

资本家凭着对资本的独占迫使工人为他们劳动。其中金融资本家被允许可以凭空创造新的资本。

工人们的生活水平必须被保持在一个使他们愿意继续为资本家工作的水平，而不是自己去做资本家，或者不再理会资本家而去享受生活。也就是说，工人们必须保持一定程度的贫困，他们的收入（有效需求）必须受到限制。这是资本主义社会得以继续存在的要求。但是同样是为了社会的稳定，尤其是当资本家和工人们同处一地的时候，为了资本家的人身安全，工人们也不能过于贫困。

劳动生产率提高之后，出现了产品相对资本家和工人的总需求的绝对过剩。

这个时候资本家有几个选择：

1.减少工人的工作来减少产品

2.继续生产，寻找新的消费者

3.增加工人的需求（收入）

4.将产品浪费掉

寻找新的消费者无疑是最有吸引力的答案。但在找到新的消费者的同时，也找到了新的工人。新工人愿意接受更低的收入，从而将更多的利润留给资本家。

资本家做了几件事情：

1.用新工人替换老工人

2.提高劳动生产率或加大剥削新工人后，将部分增加的利润补贴给老工人。

但产品相对资本家和工人的总需求绝对过剩的老问题很快会再次出现。再看一下可能的对策及其带来的问题。

1.减少工人的工作来减少产品。太多的工人不用工作会危及资本主义制度的存续。

2.继续生产，寻找新的消费者。地球上的人口是有限的。

3.增加工人的需求（收入）。这会危及资本主义制度的存续。

4.将产品浪费掉。没有问题。

终极的解决方案只能是浪费了。战争，环保，探索宇宙，等等。

资本主义只能是这样的。

Those who study history learn that during the birth, growth, decline and fall of a civilization/culture you go through a series of stages.

The first stage is Bondage and is the most stable for reasons that should be apparent. Those who are keeping others in bondage derive the benefits of the system and seek to keep the bonded downtrodden, ignorant and complacent. At some point the Bondsmen throw off the yoke of their society and become free at which point you have:

Stage two, Liberty! This is when anyone can do anything so long as they don't annoy the neighbors to the point of causing violence. This is a rollicking good time for most people and was epitomized by the 1783-1811 period of American history.

Stage three, Abundance, is a natural outgrowth of Liberty, all those people doing what they want when they want manage to do a lot of things that accumulate wealth, in the process cultural and individual wealth grows rapidly.

Stage four, Greed, is when the culture has shifted a bit and the people then alive see the abundance created by their predecessors and want to do even better for themselves.

Stage five, Complacency, when even the greedy have everything they could possibly want people come to think of a certain high standard of living as being their birthright, they no longer have to strive to achieve instead they have more than the poor of other nations can even imagine having in their wildest dreams.

Stage six, Apathy, this is the stage where the youth in the culture/civilization don't take any interest in anything requiring effort. Everything from education to work ethic declines, the hedonistic philosophy of “Eat Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow we die”

takes root in the culture. So called Moral Fiber degrades and the culture turns to earthly pleasures to entertain itself above all other goals.

Stage seven, Dependency, this is the point where leaders arise who promise the party will go on forever, as long as you put them in charge. The people in the culture willingly give up the right to think for themselves in return for a complete abdication of personal responsibility.

Stage eight, Bondage, this usually follows quickly after dependency as the powers that be encourage the 'lower class' to just go along and get along, don't worry be happy and let us make all the decisions for you. After a generation or two the bondsmen are now so ignorant they believe that their ancestors were always bondsmen and their decedents will always be bondsmen because it is the "Natural Order"

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• Stage seven, Dependency