They wish to erase trade barriers so they can move American manufacturing jobs to Third World nations and pay workers there 50 cents a day, but bring goods tariff-free into the U.S. market and undermine the American standard of living while reaping astronomical profits for themselves. Billionaire global trader George Soros believes that a free and open society depends on a balance between self-interest and society's common interest. This selfish aspect of capitalism increases social disparities, straining and shredding the fabric of society. Entrepreneurial capitalism creates dynamism and change. Many cultural conservatives desire instead a society that is stable, static, unchanging, and that allows folks to live a quiet life with the same employer for 50 years, gold watch at retirement and all.
Capitalism lacks morals.
Capitalism, in the words of Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw, knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. But where people lack other virtues, capitalism makes greed, acquisition, wealth, the love of money, and materialism the measures of success. The cult of success has replaced a belief in principles. Society has lost its anchor. What sells succeeds, displacing traditional cultural and religious values.