wuliheron wrote:
A lot of people just lost their shirts and may actually find themselves happier for it.

Despite the recent credit failure surveys have repeatedly shown that people actually do have limits to their desires for more wealth. The few that don't seem to often rely on their wealth as a substitute for intimacy, a way of bolstering an otherwise less than satisfied ego. For example, surveys of people who win the lottery show that after the first few years the shine wears off and they are no more happier than they were before. Therefore you could easily argue that both capitalism and communism possibly have very real limitations based on the innate abilities of the human species.

iceman2 wrote:
I don’t’ see capitalism rectifying it’s self in the manner you refer to! Your view appears to be the ups and downs of a global capitalist economic system are somehow driven and self controlled almost without significant influence from a few individuals or groups. I feel the system has been skillfully manipulated and controlled by a small number of banksters and megalomaniacs who have manipulated the global governments and economic structures to place themselves in a position of almost absolute and total control of the entire global economy. To me this indicates the existing system as become so corrupt and unreasonable it has to be torn down and replaced with something else. How that would be achieved is another question but it’s effectively beyond repair or salvage!