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Here is an interesting idea from Elder Card:

"But on economic matters, I’m a committed communitarian. I regard the Soviet Union as simply state monopoly capitalism. It was run the way the United States would be if Microsoft owned everything. Real communism has never been tried! I would like to see government controls expanded, laws that allow capitalism to not reward the most rapacious, exploitative behavior. I believe government has a strong role to protect us from capitalism. I’m ashamed of our society for how it treats the poor. One of the deep problems in Mormon society is that really for the last 75 years Mormons have embraced capitalism to a shocking degree.”

That shocking degree part sounds intriguing.

I wonder if he pays his tithing on the gross or the net.

I regard the Soviet Union as simply state monopoly capitalism. It was run the way the United States would be if Microsoft owned everything. Real communism has never been tried!

Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism.

And I suspect he knows about as much about communism as he does about capitalism.

Well, I think he got one thing right: real communism (workers own the means of production) has never been tried, at least on any significant scale. That part about the state withering away never seems to actually happen. I think markets can do some things very well, and we should rely on them as much as we can for the things they do well. They don't do everything well, but this notion of Government always good, Capitalism always bad (or the other way around) is the kind of black and white thinking that is counterproductive to addressing the country's problems.

Card's idea that we need protection from unbridled capitalism rings true. Without some entity able to intervene, capitalism seems forever poised to devour both us and itself.

Introducing the new breakfast cereal Capital O's - pour milk on them and they eat themselves.

Brad Hudson wrote:... this notion of Government always good, Capitalism always bad (or the other way around) is the kind of black and white thinking that is counterproductive to addressing the country's problems.

I don't think I've ever heard that notion expressed by an American. I do hear the converse plenty.

As you can see, Card is an apostate of the highest order as scripture and doctrine show God to be the ultimate Capitalist.

bcspace wrote:... as scripture and doctrine show God to be the ultimate Capitalist.

Here's hoping the Mall yields a multitude of dividends.

bcspace wrote:As you can see, Card is an apostate of the highest order as scripture and doctrine show God to be the ultimate Capitalist.

I can't tell about sarcasm on the internet, are you being serious?

bcspace wrote:As you can see, Card is an apostate of the highest order as scripture and doctrine show God to be the ultimate Capitalist.

I always thought (religiously speaking) God was hoping for a monopoly.

Okay, I'll bite: How does scripture and doctrine show God to be the ultimate Capitalist?