Giulio Prisco sobre la idiocracia europea y el capitalismo

Estaba leyendo este articulo interesante en el blog de Giulio Prisco sobre la idiocracia que tenemos en Europa (parece que al agua no hidrata), y me han parecido interesantes unos párrafos sobre el capitalismo.

I find surreal the discussions between naive libertarians who love corporations and hate governments, and naive socialists who love governments and hate corporations. Today big governments, big banks and big corporations are one and the same entrenched power elite.

Capitalism can be good:
Smart and hard working baker Joe knows how to make good bread. He finds a capitalist partner and opens a bakery. At the beginning he works in the bakery himself with his family, then he hires some workers. Then he opens a few other bakeries, treats and pays his workers well, and continues to make good bread and sell it at reasonable prices. Everyone wins, Joe and his family, the workers, the investors, and the rest of us who can eat good bread.

And capitalism can be bad:
Finance shark Jim bribes his buddies in government to pass regulations that put Joe (and all other small bakers) out of business. Then he opens a chain of bakeries that produce tasteless and toxic bread and sell it at outrageous prices. Of course, he continues to bribe his buddies in government to protect his monopoly. After a few years he is a billionaire who scams financial markets to bring entire currencies and economies down. He owns banks protected by the government and bailed out with citizen’s money when he needs. Every few years he (and his buddies in government) engineer a financial crisis to force people out of their homes and buy them back cheap. Everybody loses but Jim and his buddies.

I suggest that we forget the terms “capitalism” or “anti-capitalism”, and just build a system where Joe’s methods work and Jim’s methods don’t.

Recomiendo volver a leer el primer párrafo justo después del tercero. No creo que el problema que venimos sufriendo sea porque gente como Joe realice una labor capitalista, sino por el negocio mafioso que se han montado compinchados gobiernos, bancos y grandes corporaciones. Y no veo porque no, que tanto un sistema capitalista como uno comunista termine de esta forma. También me sorprende ver que hay gente que opina que gente como Joe gana dinero de forma sucia.