Kapitalisme zonder verdienste is een slecht idee

- OPINIE OVER VENTURE CAPITAL VAN GEORGES VAN HOEGAERDEN

21-12-2009 - Investeringscriteria

And socialism without merit is a lie too, a hollow lie. So do not even try to juxtapose capitalism and socialism here, not the point. Neither is the ?rich? man's black-or-white argument that the mere thought of criticizing capitalism defaults into sudden socialism.

Putting our economies in a box is the last thing we should be doing, it separates us further in an increasingly global marketplace that requires the opposite. The real issue here is how to revive our economy, knowing we have powerful capitalistic assets and an unending innovative drive in our back pocket.

We need to be ready to challenge the status quo, let go (yet not discard) of the past and endure the rigor of change if we want to prevent the bottom from falling out from under our economy or face worse in ten years from now. Hope is not a strategy, change is. So, hang in there with me to redefine economic change.

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

We cannot change our economy for the better if we keep lying. And as a former leader of this country has proven, reiterating lies do not make them come true. The biggest lie is that we claim that we are more free than any other country in the world. As a polyglot immigrant I can refute that argument flat out, that is if we use the same definition of ?free?.

Freedom is the foundation of free-markets that ensures that every willing-and-able participant can become an integral building block of our economy. While there will never be total freedom, the lies we tell ourselves prevent even rudimentary freedom from taking hold.