The Truth About Capitalism

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In this essay, I will consider whether capitalism is really amoral on the grounds that it turns the economy into a high-stakes competitive game with winners and losers, where corporations are the players and in order to succeed must show no mercy to there opponents. ‘Amoral’ means lacking moral sensibility, not caring about right and wrong.
Capitalism encourages competition amongst businesses turning them into opponents against one another. There are many examples of that all around in our society, for example McDonald’s vs. Burger King, and Pepsi vs. Coca Cola. The fierce competition that exists between these corporations force them to spend millions of dollars on advertisements to bad mouth their opponents. Not only are big corporations competing with one another but small businesses are in the mix as well. That is where a big problem in capitalism exists, large corporations make it very difficult for new small businesses to open and be successful and more often then not that, the new business is wiped out by that large corporation and the owners and all of those who worked at that business are now jobless.
Two of the main goals for a corporation in capitalism are to make as much profit for your investors as possible and to be more successful than your opponents. To some corporations those goals must be reached no matter what the cost. What that means is that they are willing to anything they can do to be the best, whether it is right or wrong. A great example of that are all the American Corporations that own sweat shops in third world countries that have women and children working in horrible working environments for extremely low wages. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that what they are doing is amoral, but as long as they are saving money and continue to be successful they will not change a thing.
On the other hand, it may be contended in criticism that, in nature the strong survive and it is no different...