Capitalism is GREAT for everyone. Sure there are people in the top 2% who are making out like bandits. But without capitalism you would be either...
a) Dead. Without capitalism there would be far, far fewer people on the planet right now. It is capitalism and the economic incentives therein that have driven the innovation and development that make it possible for a billions of people to live on this planet.
or...
b) Starving and miserable - assuming you were one of the "lucky" few who were alive. Remember things "before" capitalism. War, hunger, disease, suffering... ah, the good old days. With out capitalism you would be struggling just to live day to day. There would be no computers, cars, etc., etc., the list goes on and on.
Thanks to our capitalist system an average working American lives far better (and longer) than any one, and I do mean anyone, that lived 300 years ago.
Sure capitalism is unfair (if it were "fair" it wouldn't be capitalism.) But have some prospective here... just because you have to work a 40 hour (or more!) work week, and don't have as much money as Bill Gates, doesn't mean that you are getting screwed by the system.
He did say it. I've seen it on TV. His exact words were "I took the initiative in creating the internet" It wasn't made up by anyone but Al Gore.
Anyway, vote for Harry Browne!
In an interview with "IBM's Linux point man" Irving Wladawsky-Berger (available here) in Linux Magazine. He specifically states that IBM does not care which direction goes. And judging from the text of the article it seems they would kind of prefer to keep AIX as the high end and have Linux support the low end.
Excerpts:
ON THE DIRECTION OF LINUX
Wladawsky-Berger:
Now the thing that I don't know is the priority that the Linux community puts in making Linux enterprise-ready. There is so much going on with linux in high volume applications: Linux in embedded client applications, Linux in desktop, Linux in appliances. This area is so full of possibilities that the community could say, "Irving, this is very nice, but this is our hightest priority right now. So, given that you have AIX already, this Linux compatibility in AIX is perfect, because then you have a totally complementary Linux strategy." Linux on Linux, and then Linux applications on AIX."
ON FORKING THE KERNEL
LM: There seems to be a sense that some of these enterprise features may detract from Linux on the low end. Wladawsky-Berger: I know, and I know that Linus [Torvalds] and the team are resisting forking the kernel. That's always one possibility: to have multiple kernels, and I know so far nobody wants to do that. And if that is the wish of the community, we are cool with that because that's where AIX is complementary to Linux.
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Capitalism is GREAT for everyone. Sure there are people in the top 2% who are making out like bandits. But without capitalism you would be either...
a) Dead. Without capitalism there would be far, far fewer people on the planet right now. It is capitalism and the economic incentives therein that have driven the innovation and development that make it possible for a billions of people to live on this planet.
or...
b) Starving and miserable - assuming you were one of the "lucky" few who were alive. Remember things "before" capitalism. War, hunger, disease, suffering... ah, the good old days. With out capitalism you would be struggling just to live day to day. There would be no computers, cars, etc., etc., the list goes on and on.
Thanks to our capitalist system an average working American lives far better (and longer) than any one, and I do mean anyone, that lived 300 years ago.
Sure capitalism is unfair (if it were "fair" it wouldn't be capitalism.) But have some prospective here... just because you have to work a 40 hour (or more!) work week, and don't have as much money as Bill Gates, doesn't mean that you are getting screwed by the system.
He did say it. I've seen it on TV. His exact words were "I took the initiative in creating the internet" It wasn't made up by anyone but Al Gore. Anyway, vote for Harry Browne!
I thought Al Gore took the initiative in creating the internet?
Excerpts:
ON THE DIRECTION OF LINUX
Wladawsky-Berger:
Now the thing that I don't know is the priority that the Linux community puts in making Linux enterprise-ready. There is so much going on with linux in high volume applications: Linux in embedded client applications, Linux in desktop, Linux in appliances. This area is so full of possibilities that the community could say, "Irving, this is very nice, but this is our hightest priority right now. So, given that you have AIX already, this Linux compatibility in AIX is perfect, because then you have a totally complementary Linux strategy." Linux on Linux, and then Linux applications on AIX."
ON FORKING THE KERNEL
LM: There seems to be a sense that some of these enterprise features may detract from Linux on the low end.
Wladawsky-Berger: I know, and I know that Linus [Torvalds] and the team are resisting forking the kernel. That's always one possibility: to have multiple kernels, and I know so far nobody wants to do that. And if that is the wish of the community, we are cool with that because that's where AIX is complementary to Linux.