Capitalism is responsible for the detrimental effects to human life

This round is the continuation of my arguments, exploring that Capitalism is the source of harmful effects to human life. Thirdly, War and Capitalism. The U.S. has been spending a large amount of money on millitary build-up since the end of World War 2. The millitary - industrial complex are playing an important role in american Capitalism for a long time. Many large companies producing millitary-related products are enjoying stable sales and profits by contracting the Defence Ministry of the U.S. On the other hand the U.S. government is aiming at reducing the budget for social infrastructure, pension and the unemployment benefits. Therefore, older people and the unemployed workers suffer from income reduction and old high-ways and bridges remain unrepaired or neglected. Higher quality of human life is damaged. Fourthly, in the age of globalization many Western companies are introducing the outsourcing strategy to strengthen their competitive power. This contributes to harmful effects to workers`lives. For example, ``outsourcing is spreading to new categories of workers, white collar and skilled labour. In France, 200,000 jobs in the service industry ( including 90,000 coming from services to business, 20,000 from research and development) are threatened with being transferred to Eastern Europe or Asia between 2005 and 2010.``(http://en. internationalism.org) We must pay attention to the fact that all of the world proletariat are subjected to the pressure of the insane, competitive race among business companies. Fifthly, those who are demanding the protection of natural environment and resources in local community have been killed by the companies of the West in the last few decades. Their aim is to sell natural resources like timber or mines in Asia and Latin America on a global market. Life of many local people has been sacrificed by the illegal and immoral behavior of the capitalists. ``The countries where environmental killings are most common share similarities: a powerful few, with strong links to officialdom, and many poor and disenfranchised dependent on land or forests for livelihoods, coupled with strong activist movements.``(Global killings of environmentalists on rise, The Japan Times, June 22,2012) From above arguments I believe that Capitalism is responsible for the harmful and detrimental effects to human life. Rebuttals: (1) I understand that Internet business is thriving in the U.S. I believe in this type of business risk is high and at the same time the possibility for generating stable income for a long time is not high. In my opinion social and economic foundation are important factor for venture capital. (2) I believe saving rate is different from one country to another. American people often say that consumption is a virtue. On the other hand,in Japan people tend to save aggressively to prepare for uncertainties. Way of life has something to do with saving behaviour. (3) If the company faces poor sales and the decrease of profit, the manager try to lay his empolyees off as early as possible. Therefore, the peaceful relations between them is easily destroyed. That are all for Round 3. Good luck, Con.