well, I agree for the most part. I am a capitalist but not one for unfettered capitalism.
I don't know what the answer is to the problem of the HUGE disparity between rich and poor. I am not a socialist or anything close to it.
oh, another thing.. I don't think all or maybe even most of the Founders were neglecting to take into account our sinful nature. I think it was Hamilton who said that if we were angels we wouldn't need government and if we are not Christian or something like that.. the laws they make will be to no effect. Yeh, i know, I just butchered it but you get the gist.
anyway... hmmm... Do u think we have unbridled capitalism to the point of.. servile state?
I missed your response above to my post, so I'll respond to it now.
I think you're right that the founders did not neglect to take in to account sinful nature, but not from a religious view of it, but from a secular notion, since even humanists can see that people can sin. I think what they didn't take into account is man's inherent sinful nature, due to original sin. If they had, then they would see that "all men being free" would eventually lead to big problems, especially with religious liberty. It's my opinion that they thought that if men could just be free, then they would generally chose the right thing. But that's not what happened. I'm probably not explaining it very well.
Yes, we do have unbridled capitalism to the point of the servile state, since so many of us work for other people - often corporations - like I do. We are "wage earners" and that's the problem. We help to make wealth for others at the top. No, I'm not a socialist or Marxist or libertarian or anything like that. According to Belloc, the servile state exists when most of us do not own the means of production for our own benefit, or wealth. Not that we have to be wealthy at all, only that we should have control over our work life, which we don't really have now.
In a wage-earner society, the masses of people are more easily controlled, because we are dependent on our employers, and the political system tends to benefit the employers.
The labor unions are tolerated, because even though the unions give workers more money and benefits, the unions prop up the whole servile state in that they aren't adverse to the corporations employing masses of people, as long as the corporations pay a fair wage and benefits.