Comments on: Interestng Note On Trends in Telivision

By: boose

boose — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:12:16 +0000

the other great part about capitalism is that it doesn’t remove other forms of motivation. If you want to go invent something, just for the hell of it, you can. All you need is the money to do so, and viola! you’re free to invent what you want. However, the competition motivation adds an extra boost for important inventions.

By: Trampage

Trampage — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:38:17 +0000

My daddy once told me that there was more than one way to skin a cat…Very interesting…maybe You should look into another way to motivate yourself otherwise won’t you just swivell up and die after you have beaten everybody?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:11:20 +0000

The issue isnt whether competition generated by captialsim is the absolute best motivator but whether its more effective than any other kind. Certainly when tyring to impress mary jane so she will be your g-friend you write a great poem, but Mary Jane aint going to motivate you to find a better way to fasten steal girders to a structure. But that other company will when they can get it done faster and cheaper becase they found a better way.

On the whole competition is the best generator of innovation. Nothing comes close which is not to say other form of motivation can cause creation as well. Its just that competion is most reliable and effective.

By: Trampage

Trampage — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

-Steve-
what alternate world are you living in. Have you heard of rage, love etc. Maybe competition dosen’t stoke everyone’s fire quite as much as it does for a good little capitalist.

I’m so pleased to think that tonight some little cpitalist is planning how to cut down another tree to bring us mooore good things or maybe bringing us power for our cars from corn.

By: darwin

darwin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:50:19 +0000

Sure, once it’s been corrupted by corporate lobbyists

By: steve

steve — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:12:12 +0000

We have a resident communist lets put the question to him.

Darwin can the government do wrong?

By: boose

boose — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:53:12 +0000

i’d say that belief is pretty much completely independent of capitalism. I mean, even when the government does get too controlling (near-communism) the liberals still say that there needs to be more protections against the greedy capitalists (actual communism). Hell, even when communsim fails, they still say that it’s because the government was controlling things wrong. I don’t think there are many situations in which a bleeding-heart actually thinks that the government made a mistake.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:05:02 +0000

Touche.

By: darwin

darwin — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:44:12 +0000

Wait a minute, I thought that the naive belief most liberals have about big government being the solution to all problems was EXACTLY what capitalism was best at producing.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:58:08 +0000

Darwin-

Its more than just the quality of the film the show is shot with. I should say that while cable has been around since the early eighties it has taken a decade or so to really pull viewers from the national broadcasters.

And if anything, it was series produced by HBO and not not west wing that has lead to an increase in quality at the national level.

Trampage-

Few things get the creative juices flowing like the competition capitalism generates. But i will agree that capitalism plays an equally important role in finding ways to make products more accessible to more people. Primarily through the competition of finding creative ways to produce things cheaper.

Boose-

Now that you mention it capitalism also can’t generate that naive belief most liberals have about big government being the solution to all problems.

Damn i guess there are things capitalism cant do after all. That must be why liberal guilt was created.