Fabulous First Paragraph - Money, Greed, and God - Jay W. Richards

Fabulous First Paragraph - Money, Greed, and God - Jay W. Richards

In the great twentieth-century battle between communism and capitalism, capitalism won.  But many of us still have serious problems with capitalism.  Just turn on the TV and you'll see capitalism blamed for almost every social problem.  Executives at giant corporations..... lie, cheat, and steal billions of dollars from workers and shareholders.  A few lucky people get fabulously wealthy while grinding poverty persists, not just in third-world countries, but in the middle of great American cities.  Oil companies destroy the environment, use up limited natural resources, and resist efforts to find alternative sources of energy.  As one anonymous critic put it: "The history of capitalism is a history of slavery, child labor, war, and environmental pollution."