Debate: Capitalism vs. Democracy
Side: democracy

Capitalism, free market, free trade:Allocates resources where they can make the most profit.Essentially a market democracy where supply and demand dictates everything.Consumption of goods is promoted.More goods are made for consumption.More goods are turned into capital goods (goods that have a price tag)Like land.Like buildings.Like air.Like water.Like ideas (patents).Like labor (wages).Therefore people become a commodity.The profit margin creates efficiency.Efficiency and profit comes with better technology.Surplus profits are needed to pay for this technology.This surplus also comes with lower wages.It also comes with more efficient labor power.Labor is encouraged to work harder, produce more each hour paid.Work hard and you will be rewarded?Once technology and efficiency is at a maximum, the cost of things can go down.Companies mass produce.Machines do industrial work.Supply becomes surplus to demand.Supply of labor becomes surplus to demand.People are made redundant.There are less jobs available for them to go back into.People are encouraged to work for money.They work for money to pay for goods.Companies need to find better markets.Companies become larger.Inequality between consumers and capitalists becomes greaterCompanies do market research to find markets.Companies watch what everyone spends through rewards cards.I could go on and on and on, but I'm sorry, I have no more time.Democracy means the marginalized majority can have some say over what happens with government policy. Democracy is being hijacked by big money. Big money comes from the capitalist dynamic.You suggest that capitalism=free trade, but reject the idea that democracy=equality. The way you reject it is by anecdotal evidence of the worst cases, and disregard the best cases. I suggest to you that you "do more studying, please" and find out what the dynamic of capitalism does to the country. I suggest that without democracy this dynamic would run rampant. I suggest that capitalism would have failed already and fallen into the past if it was not for supporters who DEMOCRATICALLY voted for it.ha ha drugs being legal makes it easier for users to get help-it makes it easier for users to get drugs alsoha ha people will be able to learn to properly balance their substance... alright to teach people how to do drugs properly (is this an argument for or against? Alcohol is legal. tobacco is legal. Lot of money going into teaching people correct use. Many people using them correctly, many dying every year from them)lets look at your argument...Drugs should be legal.Capitalism is awesome.Democracy is bad.Drugs are the PERFECT commodity! (everything is there for them. Can be produced efficiently and cheaply. Makes users want more. Is easily transportable. Many people already want it. Already a lot of technological advances and knowledge base around it)IMAGINE the devastation that would happen if the Capitalist dynamic (and as you say, free trade) was given full legal use to sell drugs!!Oh, the government would put regulations about age limits, amounts sold... no no, thats democracy. Lets not let the majority of the country that KNOW that drugs should definitely be illegal stop drugs from being legal! They don't know whats best! Plus I want to be able to walk into a petrol station and pick up a tinny of bubblegum skunk five tabs of acid and ten grams of cocaine, even though I am only 13. Ive been to the educational school programs that teach me how to correctly use them. Oh no wait, thats right, we have no democracy, and capitalism is free to do what it wants, and it doesn't want people to under-consume!OHHH DEEEAAAARRRHow much time did I waste just then?