Capitalism is not the problem. Greed is the problem.

Of the systems of an economy that are most effective, capitalism is up on top. It is more efficient than say communism because people only request resources they most want. It drives people to work more to satisfy their own appetites. This has a tendency to maximize production. The problem happens when people stop at satisfying their own appetites and do not help the poor.

A laborer’s appetite makes him work harder, because he wants to satisfy his hunger. Proverbs 16:26 (GNT).

Don’t be fooled, communism destroys a country. First, all the land and factories are seized and taken away from the populace. My buddy’s grandfather was a very wealthy Cuban before Castro stole many hundreds of acres of land from him. After they steal from the people, they separate them into classes: equal, leader, and secret police who guard the leader. All get some level of paranoia from the other classes. The people are worried the leader will make them disappear by the secret police. The leader is afraid of both the people uprising and the secret police assassinating him. The secret police are worried the leader won’t like their work and know other secret police are watching so they do far worse things than their conscious will allow. “If I let this man go, they will kill me too.”, is a common thought. And their fear drives them to justify their evils.

Also, Communism is driven very much by propaganda. If you are lazy and a communist, you will just do the bare minimum to scrape by. Extra work, only helps others and not your family directly. This encouragement to laziness lowers the ultimate productive capacity of the communist nations.

Capitalism works, and visitors to the US are often astounded by the grocery store. Their own countries having nothing like it. A capitalistic free country fares better than other choices.

The problem is that when men have so much money that they do things like kick the ladder out so no one can climb it. Some lobby and sue away competition. Others see how many women like dating wealthy men, so they hoard wealth for themselves and do not donate. In fact, this phenomenon is so major, some try their best to increase the rich and poor divide. Everything said in this paragraph is sinful greed and if you do these things, ask Jesus for forgiveness and sin no more. 

Be generous and help your fellow man instead of trying the lord money over him. Jesus is our master. Jesus emptied himself to lift up others. May we do the same. Capitalism is a great system so people can get ahead. But once you maximize your production and are treading water, help the poor. Getting money to the poorest of the poor gives them the means to get by and builds up their local farmers and merchants’ economy for lasting change.

Unused fields could yield plenty of food for the poor, but unjust people keep them from being farmed. Proverbs 13:23 (GNT).

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