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Is capitalism a form of natural selection?

Those who don't have the tools (education, intelligence, inherent desire for more and more, parental gifts, inheritance, proper race or gender, connections, the right country, or pure luck) simply perish or become free market serfs. People really are starving and dying, so the similarities are there. Your view?

Public Comments

1. It really doesn't depend on race, intelligence, etc, but yes, the strongest companies survive.
2. Wow! I've never thought about it that way before. I always thought about how the American capitalistic way of life seemed to be getting more and more negatively cyclical, but never compared it to natural selection. Those born into privileged families have easy access to good health care, an education, social networks, authority, and financial support, and their children are very likely to benefit from the wealth and success of their parents in the same way.Those not born into those kinds of families have a hard time acquiring those things, and in some cases, are having a hard time being able to feed themselves, and their children are likely to suffer the same hardships, and are less likely to "make it". I suppose then that capitalism is a form of natural selection; but I wouldn't exactly call it "natural". Capitalism a man-made socioeconomic concept, which I think has replaced natural selection as Darwin described it. Those in privileged positions or positions of authority dictate how the system will work and who can get into it. If you're poor, or of a religious or cultural background that they don't approve of, you're all the more impaired. It also really fits in with the idea of natural selection because natural selection does not mean that the smartest and strongest survive; it means that whomever is best adapted to the environment survives, and that rings true of capitalism. You can be intelligent and capable all you want, but if you don't have the money to eat, see a doctor when you're sick, or afford college, you are going to have an extremely difficult time surviving in the capitalistic world.
3. Education is an ambiguous term. Is someone who graduated from college necessarily more educated than someone who didn't? Same thing goes for intelligence. I am smart as hell, pretty much brilliant, I am doing OK. But, just because you are smart doesn't mean you have to go into a profession where the money is "good". Money is good, no doubt. But, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should nor does it mean you have to. In, anyways, if you work you are not truly rich is basically how it goes. If you are truly rich, your money works for you. You don't work for your money. Some nurses are smart. Some teachers are smart. But, they don't make as much money as accountants, psychologist, or financial advisers, for instance.
4. Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism. Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds). Actual economics is the persons that are paying the business loans of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for. Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.