Capitalism is bad

1. Capitalism is the root cause of war. Your assumption here is absolutely wrong. War is not caused by capitalism. Mankind engaged in war long before Capitalism ever was a concept. 2. Respect. Since this is your first debate ever on this debate site, you need to know the rules and use respect when using your argument. Your are not suppose to yell at your opponent. You are to use restraint and manners. 3. Moving forward. Capitalism does not create war purely by itself and capitalism doesn't need wars to sustain ownership and wealth.War is not in the definition of capitalism. America is built upon free enterprise. Which means if you have the talent, gift and creative ability to get wealth, more power to you. What type of capitalism are you expressing here? When America cut its ties from the socialist king that ruled England, America vowed by its first president George Washington not to intervene into any of Europe's wars and not start any world wars. For the first one hundred years America did not fight in any of Europe's wars yet America became the envy of the world, because it prospered by serving God (Yahweh), country and capitalism. Capitalism is also the social system based on the principle of individual rights. Who would not want that? the founding fathers were getting away from socialism by using any ideals that promoted freedom. Thank God for this capitalist nation! So it wasn't war that made America great and the role model for the world to follow, it was its ideals and capitalism was one of those founding ideals. Japan use to be a communist country but they turned to capitalism and now they are a first world country just like America. Why would a country turn from communism? Because there is a better way to live and get wealth for your country, and that way was Capitalism. 4. Capitalism pure and simple. There is no reason to demonize making money. Capitalism is just a way of making money and creating wealth without somebody else telling you what you should do. It's your money, spend it like you want. You can share it or you can keep it. The capitalist way is a form of pure freedom; to be the best that you can be. Money makes money and the Bible says " Money answers all". It's the love of money that corrupts. In other words greed. A person, company, country or nation can be republic, a democracy, socialist,communist, fascist,or any combination there of. If any are greedy and do corrupt, evil and unjust things with its wealth; that doesn't mean the money that is made is evil, it means the people are. Capitalism is not synonymous with a Democratic Republic. China is a communist country that acts capitalistic. I'm not shocked to know about countries that are socialist and communist that use capitalism and are succeeding. Because capitalism is a form and way of getting wealth its not a government. 5. Points that you've said you said " Non-capitalist economies are more productive and create more wealth than capitalism- capitalist countries are not distinguished by high levels of wealth. The somewhat more socialist economies and more corporatist economies of Western Europe reach wealth levels exceeding the levels in the capitalist economies. The reasons are familiar. One of the major drivers of wealth, the propensity to save, is higher in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, France and Germany than in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada despite the high security offered by the continental welfare system. " but, Back in 2004, a pair of Swedish economists, Fredrik Bergstrom and Robert Gidehag, did a study called "The EU vs. USA", for the Swedish think tank Timbro. You may recall that Sweden is one of those European socialist countries that is used as a model of success, a country we should pattern ourselves after.* Here are the results: The study found that if Europe were part of the U.S., only tiny Luxembourg could rival the richest of the 50 American states in gross domestic product per capita. Most European countries would rank below the U.S. average.* The authors admit that man doesn't live by GDP alone, and that this measure misses output in the "black" economy, which is significant in Europe's high-tax states. GDP also overlooks "the value of leisure or a good environment" or the way prosperity is spread across a society.* But a rising tide still lifts all boats, and U.S. GDP per capita was a whopping 32% higher than the EU average in 2000, and the gap hasn't closed since. It is so wide that if the U.S. economy had frozen in place at 2000 levels while Europe grew, the Continent would still require years to catch up. Ireland, which has lower tax burdens and fewer regulations than the rest of the EU, would be the first but only by 2005. Switzerland, not a member of the EU, and Britain would get there by 2010. But Germany and Spain would need until 2015, while Italy, Sweden and Portugal would have to wait until 2022.* Higher GDP per capita allows the average American to spend about $9,700 more on consumption every year than the average European. So Yanks have by far more cars, TVs, computers and other modern goods. "Most Americans have a standard of living which the majority of Europeans will never come anywhere near," the Swedish study says.* The percentage of Americans living below the poverty line has dropped to 12% from 22% since 1959. In 1999, 25% of American households were considered "low income," meaning they had an annual income of less than $25,000. If Sweden "the very model of a modern welfare state were judged by the same standard, about 40% of its households would be considered low-income.* In other words poverty is relative, and in the U.S. a large 45.9% of the "poor" own their homes, 72.8% have a car and almost 77% have air conditioning, which remains a luxury in most of Western Europe. The average living space for poor American households is 1,200 square feet. In Europe, the average space for all households, not just the poor, is 1,000 square feet.* "The expansion of the public sector into overripe welfare states in large parts of Europe is and remains the best guess as to why our continent cannot measure up to our neighbor in the west," the authors write. In 1999, average EU tax revenues were more than 40% of GDP, and in some countries above 50%, compared with less than 30% for most of the U.S.* You also say " Already, China is on track to overtake the US as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and yet the elite of China as well as those of India and other rapidly developing countries are intent on reproducing the American-type overconsumption-driven capitalism" this sentence is against your view. You showed that capitalism works in even a communist country like china. also you say " in the current round of climate negotiations, for instance, China, can no longer opt out of a mandatory regime on the grounds that it is a developing country." this means that china can not deny the fact that it used capitalism. You also claim that I "define all the government does is regulate and intervene with peoples personal lives" this might sound crazy to you, but lets see what different types of government their are: Socialism: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state,a society or group living in which there is no private property, any of various economic and political theories having collective or governmental ownership and unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done .** Communism: totalitarian system of government when a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production** Facism: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control** as I said, unlike other systems, Capitalism is a system where You can do what You want to do in Your life, not the govenment telling you what to and what to buy. it's what You want to do. **www.merriam-webster.com