I've posted this on other boards - so how about here: Why is Capitalism better?

[Wei Wu Wei]

And you're not in that "class"?

0.5% of the population owns 49% of all privately-owned corporate stock.

the top 1% holds about 35% of wealth.

These are the people in that class.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Only if you are ignorant.

No it's a structural necessity. It's called a master-signifier.

Look up Jacques Lacan

[Wei Wu Wei]

Capitalism is better for EVERYONE who is willing to work.

lol

[Apache]

lol

Says the welfare Queen...

[CueSi]

I am an exotic dancer. . .so I'm VERY much in the capitalist class. I am my own capital. When I fork over $40 a month for a gym membership that I use with regularity, I am investing in myself , and I get it back every night I step forward to work. I and my clients are protected by law, so they know what they're getting when they ask for a lapdance or a private room with me.

I've talked to dancers who have worked in former Communist Bloc countries. There, a dancer could be used and abused with no recourse: her tips taken from her leaving her with no money, forced into sex work or drug use in order to keep the bosses happy; and when she wanted to go to authorities it was useless because they were often in cahoots with the club owners.

In a capitalist society for the most part - - a dancer kept as a sex slave is a product of diminishing returns, and probable cause to have the club raided and/or shut down.

~QC

[Wei Wu Wei]

I am an exotic dancer. . .so I'm VERY much in the capitalist class. I am my own capital. When I fork over $40 a month for a gym membership that I use with regularity, I am investing in myself , and I get it back every night I step forward to work. I and my clients are protected by law, so they know what they're getting when they ask for a lapdance or a private room with me.

1. That's not what it means to be in the capitalist class. If anything, the owners of the club you work in are closer.

2. Laws protecting you and your clients? You don't believe in deregulation of the free market and letting the invisible hand take care of you? Sounds kinda socialist to me.

[CueSi]

1. That's not what it means to be in the capitalist class. If anything, the owners of the club you work in are closer.

2. Laws protecting you and your clients? You don't believe in deregulation of the free market and letting the invisible hand take care of you? Sounds kinda socialist to me.

The owners won't have shit w/o the dancers. They need us far more than we need them. I can move on to another club if I don't like the one I'm at. Even in a big city like the one I'm in, there are clubs that are short staffed and trying their damnedest to keep dancers.

Laws to preserve the integrity of the product and keep the highest quality, ensuring repeat buisness. There's nothing more capitalist than that.

You may want to check your hearing. :)

~QC

[Wei Wu Wei]

The owners won't have shit w/o the dancers. They need us far more than we need them.

I completely agree.

Laws to preserve the integrity of the product and keep the highest quality. There's nothing more capitalist than that.

The free market is supposed to take care of quality. If some other club is dirty and awful, and yours is clean and fun, well the free market should handle it.

[CueSi]

The free market is supposed to take care of quality. If some other club is dirty and awful, and yours is clean and fun, well the free market should handle it.

And they do to a degree. . .one other place not far from me went out of buisness, then reopened as part of a national chain.

But there's also a force at work in my business that's more powerful than economics: the libido.

~QC

[Wei Wu Wei]

government regulation saying what I can or can't do with my dollar or with the club I own?

sounds like socialism to me

-Joe the poster