Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism

Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by unishark on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#22267221)

I'd say capitalism really doesn't have values, it's just an economic system for how resources get distributed. People are already greedy by nature. So capitalism is a healthier way for greedy people to compete, versus other systems that become corrupt messes due to human greed.

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Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by jlarocco on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:57PM (#22268719)

> So capitalism is a healthier way for greedy people to compete, versus other systems that become corrupt messes due to human greed.

Yeah, that never happens with capitalism...

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Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by that_jojo on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:17PM (#22268964)

Greedies gonna greed

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Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by unishark on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:40PM (#22269173)

A suspect most of what you blame on corrupt capitalism is in fact corrupt govts trying to regulate capitalism to achieve some political agenda. But of course I'm only guessing here as your post contributes nothing but snark.

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Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by jlarocco on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:17PM (#22270416)

My point was that corruption isn't inherent to any economic system, but an unfortunate part of the human condition.

Trying to scapegoat a particular economic or political system as inherently corrupt is naive at best, and disingenuous or dishonest at worst.

And there's never been (and never will be) a 100% capitalist society, so even if they could be corruption free it doesn't help much.

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Re:Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradict... by unishark on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:23PM (#22305759)

Given your last couple posts I suspect you might not be aware of the forum guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Brainstorming a range of negative interpretations of my words then providing appropriate insults for each, isn't my idea of responding to the strongest plausible interpretation of my words. For that matter, if you can't imagine anything that isn't insult-worthy, you might simply ask me what I mean. The answer would be that I was arguing capitalism has a relatively unusual feature of actually channeling greed rather than trying to stamp it out. If "the new soviet man" makes a decision for personal profit versus that of society they are corrupting their communist system. Whereas a capitalist can do so completely within their capitalist system. It has nothing to do with name-calling or about who is and isn't "corrupt" as some inherent human or systemic flaw. Do you still not get my point?

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