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Capitalism – Merits and Demerits

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Capitalism is the most common and modern social system&comma; widely acceptable by advance economies&period;&&num;160&semi; This system advocates for the principle of individual rights&period; The basic philosophy behind is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;economic liberalism&period;” This School of thought believes that there should be less intervention of government in economic affairs&period; General demand and supply forces are controlled privately&comma; and government role is to protect the legal rights of people&period; In this economic system all the means of productions are owned and controlled by private people&period;&&num;160&semi; There is a free market where people have the liberty to invest their capital to earn profit&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Statistics show that this is the most successful system as compare to any other system&comma; especially if we compare it with communism&period; The economic growth is manifold as well as the per capita income&comma; which leads to a better living standard for general public&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Democracy and capitalism go together and share the basic philosophy&period; It has the democratic essence that every individual have right to achieve the maximum economic and social position&period;&&num;160&semi; These also are proven true where these systems are implemented&period; Generally there are four types of capitalism exist Market-let&comma; Corporate&comma; Social-democratic and state-led&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Merits of Capitalism&&num;160&semi; <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lbrack;adsense1&rsqb;Economic Growth&colon;<&sol;strong> Rapid and consistent economic growth is the proven out come of this Capitalism&period; As there is less government intervention so many evil like corruption&comma; nepotism&comma; poor management did not hurt the growth rate&period; These are the common evils comes with authority&period;&&num;160&semi; Another reason of this growth is when people invest their own money the make best effort to make profit out of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Efficient Allocation of Resources&colon;<&sol;strong> The means of production utilizes at the optimum level because the individual interest is involved&period; Resource used to produce the products needed and in demand of market&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Efficient production&colon;<&sol;strong> A competitive environment is there as every individual can takes any profit making activity&period;&&num;160&semi; Competition push producer to take productive steps like cost cutting&comma; new technology and use of best supply chain for make good profit&period;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Financial incentives&colon; <&sol;strong>Better financial gains are proven pushing force&comma; for people to being involved in productive activities&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Demerits of Capitalism <&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>&lbrack;linkunit&rsqb;Inequality&colon;<&sol;strong> The biggest argument against capitalism is inequality&comma; in the free economies system the more talented and innovative people build strong financial position as compare to less skilled individuals&period; So this trend leads to inequality of distribution of wealth&period;&&num;160&semi; Money makes money it is true in capitalism people who have the money invests their capital to different businesses and earn more money&period; Those who do not have the money cannot avail such opportunities and remain being deprived&period;&&num;160&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"><strong>Lack of Welfare<&sol;strong>&colon; Capitalism has no feelings it is all about the materialistic efforts&period; This is the most popular reason vocal against capitalism when compare to communism&period;&&num;160&semi; In communism the whole philosophy is human welfare in common&comma; this aspect is totally missing in capitalism&period; Capitalism talks about reward of effort to individuals and advocate for it but do not discuss the interest of society and other stake holders&period;&&num;160&semi; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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