TINA/capitalism

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's famous response to a question about challenges to capitalism was TINA -- There Is No Alternative. If there is no alternative, anyone who questions capitalism is crazy.

Here's another, more common, acronym about life under a predatory corporate capitalism: TGIF -- Thank God It's Friday. It's a phrase that communicates a sad reality for many working in this economy -- the jobs we do are not rewarding, not enjoyable, and fundamentally not worth doing. We do them to survive. Then on Friday we go out and get drunk to forget about that reality, hoping we can find something during the weekend that makes it possible on Monday to, in the words of one songwriter, "get up and do it again."

Remember, an economic system doesn't just produce goods. It produces people as well. Our experience of work shapes us. Our experience of consuming those goods shapes us. Increasingly, we are a nation of unhappy people consuming miles of aisles of cheap consumer goods, hoping to dull the pain of unfulfilling work. Is this who we want to be?

We're told TINA in a TGIF world. Doesn't that seem a bit strange? Is there really no alternative to such a world? Of course there is. Anything that is the product of human choices can be chosen differently. We don't need to spell out a new system in all its specifics to realize there always are alternatives. We can encourage the existing institutions that provide a site of resistance, while we experiment with new forms. But the first step is calling out the system for what it is, without guarantees of what's to come.



I don't think the problem is that the whole system in which we were immersed for years made ​​us humans conformist who no longer have the voice of struggle that many people had before, we simply become part of the system, all complain of capitalism but nobody really does anything to find new forms of economy.

they unknown that there are businesses that can work in social action, make money and solve a problem, like social business. make a lot more compared to being just another employee of the capitalist system that exploits many people, also be part of these Corporations based on democracy where equity and the welfare of their employees is a priority as the Mondragon Corporation (MC).

I think not to complain all the time how badly the system works, is about to act differently and look for new alternatives, the issue isn't only in the system, but also in us that we become conformists.

The One Percent

The documentary The One Percent, tries to show the inequality between the social classes of United States, and how the richest families in the country keep on increasing their fortines while average americans happen to live.


Jamie Johnson is an example, used the power of his name to promote a new lifestyle to people who know and have more followers. While still living in his luxurious life and make no change in that aspect, you can see the initiative that has to change things, which is primarily important. “The One Percent” compels despite its many simplicities, showing, for instance, how sugar titans in this country have bought enough political influence to reap millions and millions in government subsidies as they trample the Everglades and exploit workers. Mr. Johnson is a young heir who isn’t out trying to name a fragrance after himself. And he cares, even if naïvely, about something that truly matters.

People that don´t hesitate when it comes to criticizing the gap between wealth and poverty, usually have this tipe of backgrounds. He starts telling to Friedman that the fact that this 1% of society that controls more than 40% of the money of the country, are the ones to blame for the other 99% of americans to not succeed, or be able to get out of the poor social class they belong. The fact that Johson has a camera to film, the resources to visit the people he wanted to interview and have the crew that helped him developed this project is thanks to the wealth that his family has provided and worked for.


It's a very interesting documentary that shows how a billionaire can make a difference in America, is an example of the rich do not only think about themselves and not see beyond their noses, but rather this example we see that is the opposite and that they also care about the common good even though they have never had any kind of difficulty or lack of money.
Johnson is proposing is to find a way of ending this type of inequality and the tacit solution is: socialism. What socialism would like to do is to redistribute the money in the countries and used them as public policies that would "benefit" the societies. 

New creative ways of economy: social business

In Yunus' definition, a social business is a non-loss, non-dividend company designed to address a social objective within the highly regulated marketplace of today. It is distinct from a non-profit because the business should seek to generate a modest profit but this will be used to expand the company’s reach, improve the product or service or in other ways to subsidise the social mission.
In fact a wider definition of social business is possible, including any business which has a social rather than financial objective.


"Human beings are driven by more than a desire to just make money. Self-sustaining social enterprises should be built around this aspiration." Muhammad Yunus.



Muhammad proposed project is one of the most interesting entrepreneurial ideas I've heard, because not only is to create a new form of business that generates profits, also this business solve a social problem that include a society or community.


As the project in Bangladesh with this new social business proposal, a business to achieve other economic gains, generate jobs for the community and gradually resolve the problem of malnutrition of children. this is a sign that with a little creativity anything can be improved, the point is not to get stuck watching the problems accumulate, just realize the potential of problem to give a solution and make money.

The biggest flaw in the conceptual design of the existing theory lies in its misrepresentation of the human being. In traditional profit-maximizing capitalism, human beings are treated as one-dimensional creatures whose only mission in life is to make as much money as possible.


That's the difference between an economic model based on social business and economic model capitalist, in the capitalism the only thing that matters is making money, get profits only for myself and be the most powerful, social business is the opposite, you win money but problems are solved, the company is involved and so everyone wins.