Capitalism, Which Is The Moral Social System?

Lachezar Tsenov
BUS340
Capitalism or Socialism – Which is the moral social system?

There are two major systems that compete for the name of moral social system. Capitalistic and socialistic ideas are quite different but both of them have a lot of supporters. Capitalism is about you pursuing your own goals and your goals only without caring about the others in the system. On the other hand, Socialism is about you pursuing the goals of you and the others at the same time. The question which system is the moral one is of high importance for the future of our world. Egoism is the word that best describes Capitalism. This system lies on the idea that people are born to become selfish and that it is our
Egoism can be considered moral only if we accept that the human nature is selfish. Then acting as you are supposed to act, being selfish, is not morally wrong. Indeed, it is moral to follow your nature. Altruism, in contrast, can be considered moral if you do not take for granted that the human nature is selfish. Living for the good of the whole society, including you, is for sure morally right. But how can we say what human nature is? There is no technology created to determine or to research the so called human nature. All we have are assumptions, nothing else. And it is sad when you open an “Intro to Politics” or the “Economics” textbooks to see stated everywhere that human nature is selfish. Why should we take the fact that the human nature is egoistic for granted? How is it proven? The answer is that we don’t have to take for granted something that is not true. If all the people were selfish by nature, how come altruism exists? How come so many people help each other? How come there are so many remarkable acts of helping that are connected by no way to gains or benefits? The obvious answer is that there is no such thing as selfish human nature. Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare conjecture, one of the seven mathematical millennium problems, stated by the Clay Mathematical Institute in 2000. The reward for doing that was $ 1 000 000 but he declined them. If he was selfish by nature he would’ve taken the money but he didn’t. He didn’t dedicate big part of his life to receive something back. He didn’t solve it to gain something. What about Bethoven? He was considered crazy and he didn’t earn much for what he did during his life. However, Bethoven wrote this wonderful music without expecting anything back. Some of the music was done for Elise, the woman he was in love with. He knew that there is no chance to be with her but still he wrote “fur Elise” because he