Capitalism is irrational in that it tends to over-concentrate in high profit lines of production and neglect low profit but essential goods and services of the community and nation. Capitalism is irrational in that its concern with growth wastes raw materials, uses energy resources needlessly, and creates mountains and canyons of trash. In the effort to avoid costs, capitalism pollutes the air, the water, and the soil. Demand for profits requires that the manager avoid the responsibility and costs of cleaning up after production. Capitalism gets its highest profits from the poorest nations in the world.
Capitalism exports food from the hungriest nations in the world and imports it to the fattest.
Capitalism subverts the political process in the third world countries in order to maintain the flow of profits, raw materials, and the freedom to control markets in those countries. Capitalism encourages the migration of skilled professional trained at the expense of workers in the third world but erects an iron fence to prevent the migration of those who would follow the food, the wealth, and the profits exported from the Third World to the twenty rich capitalist countries. The world capitalist system requires a false peace as well as huge military apparatus to control resistance and rebellion in the Third World. Capitalism replaces the meaning of democracy from full participation at work and in other important life activities with the narrow act of voting for preselected candidates once every two or four years. White collar crime increases as the middle classes come to realize the need for a portfolio for their senior years, as they come to realize the futility of serving the corporation, and as they come to face life crises and false needs beyond even their extensive resources.