Forum Post: Things you need to understand.........2
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 7, 2011, 9:34 p.m. EST by jasmine
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What country has had more inventions to enbetter "the peoples" life?
THe United States has come up with more inventions than any other country to help people all over the world enbetter their lives.
The Microwave: every house hold has one even the poor have microwaves who invented it?
The microwave oven's discovery pretty much comes down to one man, Percy Spencer. Spencer was an American engineer and inventor from Howland, Maine who was working at the Raytheon Company on magnetrons to produce a more efficient microwave radio signal. As it seems with most discoveries, the breakthrough really came about quite by accident. Great American Inventors invented: Crayons, the Ford car, the wright brothers flying machine, windshild wipers, tea bags, vaccum cleaner, air conditioner, the teddy bear, the safty razor, escalator,Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2. the assembly line automated production. synthetic plastic called Bakelite. ON and On it goes.
Some of these great inventors and thinkers were immergants from other countrys but because of the capitalist system we had here they were able to see threw with their inventions. And all over the world have been enbettered because of them.
Yes we have a great system, we have a great country, NO country is perfect. There are things that need to be worked on but out of all the other systems we have the best. Our President is dividing classes into class warfair and all of you are falling right into his agenda. This country provides more for its people than anyother country.
Our country breeds and supports free thinking, the abilty to prosper, and to live an american dream (you just have to work for it). Why do you think so many people come here from other countrys to start business, to work, to live? Cause they see it for what United States is, they dont take anything for granted. And are willing to work hard for what they want. There is not free ride in life, no matter where you are. You have to aspire to be great to do great things and by sitting blaming everyone around you for your failings is just a big fail on your part. Regardless of what the government or the rich or who ever is doing is up to each person to find their way in life. Believe me there is no short cut ( unless you get on the goverment teat). People have been doing this in this country for 200+ years and each generation gets better and smarter. People are living longer over all and we have so much to our disposal.
YOu all can sit in your tents and think the rich are hurting you or you can be one of them by working hard. You can condem and blame everyone for your failing or get off your arses and get busy with life. Many people have done it before you and many will do it after you. You are the -1%. those that have choise to do nothing with your lifes and blame whoever for what you think you cant do.
They aren't against capitalism, they just want higher taxes on the 1% to pay for job creation. Face it, the private sector is not doing it, they are cutting jobs because of automation and low demand.
is this
if you work hard you'll prosper
i did it and so can you
and if you didn't try hard enough
Yep. It sure is.
how i could just kill a man!
killing is lazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wJS3zRx1I
What is Capitalism? cap·i·tal·ism [ káppit'l ìzzəm ] 1.free-market system: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit
What does capitalizm mean for the United States?
That anyone in this country has the freedom to create money from a business. Top capitalist in the United States how they got started:
Sam Walton: When Sam went to get his loan to purchase the ben Franklin the bank said NO. "Walton took over management of his first variety store at the age of 26. With the help of a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law, plus $5,000 he had saved from his time in the Army, Walton purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. However the success of the first Ben Franklin drew the attention of the landlord, whose family had a history of retail, P.K. Holmes, who refused to renew the lease when it expired, desiring to reclaim the store, and pass it onto his son. The lack of a renewal option, together with the outrageous rent of 5% of sales, were early business lessons to Walton. Despite forcing Walton out, Holmes bought the store's inventory and fixtures for $50,000, which Walton called "a fair price". With a year left on the lease, but the store effectively sold, he, his wife Helen and his father managed to negotiate the purchase of a new location on the downtown square of Bentonville, Arkansas where Walton negotiated the purchase of a small store, and the title to the building, on the condition that he get a 99 year lease to expand into the shop next door. The owner of the shop next door refused 6 times, and Walton had thus given up on Bentonville when his father in law, without Sam's knowledge, paid the shop owner a final visit, and $20,000 to secure the lease. (He had just enough from the sale of the first store to close the deal, and reimburse Helen's father.)
Before he bought the Bentonville store, it was doing $72,000 in sales. After the expansion, and 5 years under Walton, it was doing $250,000 in sales annually"
Steve Jobs: "Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester,[18] he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
He went to work at atari as a technician.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr. As Apple continued to expand with Wozniak's next version, the Apple II, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion.
In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.
These are just two examples of capitalism in this country, there are thousands and thousands of story just like this of how a single man or a group of men worked togeather to create a product or business with little to start with and with hard work and determination brought it to the american people.
http://eng.anarchopedia.org/capitalism
a must read to understand the difference of capitalism, socialism and communism.
What is Capitalism? cap·i·tal·ism [ káppit'l ìzzəm ] 1.free-market system: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit
What does capitalizm mean for the United States?
That anyone in this country has the freedom to create money from a business. Top capitalist in the United States how they got started:
Sam Walton: When Sam went to get his loan to purchase the ben Franklin the bank said NO. "Walton took over management of his first variety store at the age of 26. With the help of a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law, plus $5,000 he had saved from his time in the Army, Walton purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. However the success of the first Ben Franklin drew the attention of the landlord, whose family had a history of retail, P.K. Holmes, who refused to renew the lease when it expired, desiring to reclaim the store, and pass it onto his son. The lack of a renewal option, together with the outrageous rent of 5% of sales, were early business lessons to Walton. Despite forcing Walton out, Holmes bought the store's inventory and fixtures for $50,000, which Walton called "a fair price". With a year left on the lease, but the store effectively sold, he, his wife Helen and his father managed to negotiate the purchase of a new location on the downtown square of Bentonville, Arkansas where Walton negotiated the purchase of a small store, and the title to the building, on the condition that he get a 99 year lease to expand into the shop next door. The owner of the shop next door refused 6 times, and Walton had thus given up on Bentonville when his father in law, without Sam's knowledge, paid the shop owner a final visit, and $20,000 to secure the lease. (He had just enough from the sale of the first store to close the deal, and reimburse Helen's father.)
Before he bought the Bentonville store, it was doing $72,000 in sales. After the expansion, and 5 years under Walton, it was doing $250,000 in sales annually"
Steve Jobs: "Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester,[18] he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
He went to work at atari as a technician.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr. As Apple continued to expand with Wozniak's next version, the Apple II, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion.
In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital.
These are just two examples of capitalism in this country, there are thousands and thousands of story just like this of how a single man or a group of men worked togeather to create a product or business with little to start with and with hard work and determination brought it to the american people.
http://eng.anarchopedia.org/capitalism
a must read to understand the difference of capitalism, socialism and communism.
this is a false argument. none of the above stated is reliant on wallstreet or corruption or even our current economic policy.
look up every one of those inventions. none of them came from corporate R&D or a single dime of corporate money. they are all inventions of individuals,most of whom lived most of their lives as working class people. the only thing pointed out here is the ability of industry to duplicate and profit from the ideas of the same people that end up building everything.