Ok seeing you are all too loving lazy here it is.
In other words, the system requires problems/constant consumer interest in order to work. The more people who have cancer in America, the better the economy due to expensive medical treatments. Needless to say, this generates an inherent disregard for human well being. The monetary arrangement, whether in the form of capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, free-market or the like, is utterly detached from natural resources and thus human well-being. It is erroneously assumed that the incentive to seek money is also the incentive to help society. Nothing could be further from the truth. For example, every single product created by a corporation today is immediately inferior by design, for the market requirement to cut creation costs in favor of lowering the output "purchase price" to maintain a competitive edge, automatically reduces the quality of any given item by default. In other words it is impossible to create the “strategically best”, long lasting anything in our society and this translates into, again, outrageous amounts of resource waste. This is entirely and provably unsustainable as a social system and the world you are beginning to see emerge around you, with growing starvation, poverty, unemployment; along with the growing scarcity of water, food and arable land, is the result.
Oh my loving God, this is the most ironic and idiotic comment ever.
The rate of lung cancer is causing stress on our economy idiot.
The economy doesn't get better as cancer rates go up. These treatments impose taxes on society, causing richer individuals to lose capital, and therefore less investment in industry and less infrastructure, trade, circulation of goods, etc.
These guys have no idea when it comes to economics. I just discredited the whole argument right there.
Also, economic competition within industries helped create new technologies, with your so called "perfect society", nothing would get done at all.
