Essay on the Evils of Capitalism Exposed in Catch-22

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Catch 22 is a story about the different personalities that can be involved in a war. Out of all the different archetypes, the three I’ve chosen are John Yossarian, Albert Tappman, and Milo Minderbinder, although, not in that order. The first character being analyzed is Yossarian, the unwilling hero of this book. Although the book labels Yossarian as the main character, he constantly tries to coward out of going to battle. The second character that will be described is Milo Minderbinder, the archetypical business person of Catch 22.He runs the camp mess hall and controls what everyone in the camp is buying, selling, and eating. Milo is constantly trying to control or manipulate the economies around him, and after he gets a large commission

“Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything”(Eartha Kitt). Greed is a dangerous emotion. It causes people to act irrationally and ruin everything around them in the process. This is particularly true in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. In the text, Milo forms a syndicate that deals with the black market. Milo then gives everyone involved a share in the syndicate, so that when the syndicate prospers, they prosper as well. However, due to Milo’s greed, he feels the need to constantly profit. His belief that he is helping everyone by profiting allows him to justify his actions, despite his actions inevitably ruining everyone’s lives. Milo’s misuse of resources and manipulation of people causes him to develop greed and believe his actions are

Milo contracted with the Germans to bomb all four of his squadrons wounding and killing many of his own men. "This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach and it looked like the end for him." (Heller 259). Every one was completely disgusted with Milo's actions until he showed every one the profit that he had made. He had made enough to reimburse the government and he made an argument that since the government is the people and the people owned the syndicate there was no need to reimburse the government. After this explanation almost everybody agreed with Milo and with the profit he made he could spend on Egyptian cotton.

An obsession of any kind is usually unhealthy, but obsession with money can destroy the soul. Karl Marx believed that human activity is paralyzed by the capitalist system. To be sure, the all-encompassing passion for wealth and power is unchristian, but is all capitalism evil? If the answer were yes, then abandoning capitalism, with its central goal of profit, would seem to be an obvious solution to the social ills of mankind. Of course, eliminating capitalism is not the answer. The fact is that capitalism, based on free competition without deception or fraud, can lead to justly obtained profits, while serving the common good.

Numerous researchers have blamed the United States capitalism on the homeless population in America. Homelessness has been a social issues for many, many, decades and the problem continues to grow out-of-control daily. There are multi-risk factors that causes one to be in a homeless situation. Due to the risk factors that are involved the greater chance of homelessness becomes.

Although it holds true that the United States is a global power, the current economic system, capitalism, threatens the state's domestic and global stability; the concept of materialistic success creates inequalities between citizens, which, in turn, leads to deviance and rebellion, and the possibility of a fallen capitalistic society. If the United States were to struggle internally, one of two things would happen: all industrialized external forces would exploit on America's lack of equanimity, or said forces would contribute to an international depression as a result of a chain reaction set by the collapse of an important economic state.

I wholeheartedly believe the basis for all social problems stem from capitalism, social stratification, eurocentrism, and racial and ethnic inequality. Karl Marx referred to an internal contradiction (pg. 54), which emanated from industrialization, as the origin of production capitalism. In other words, the individual worker did not possess the ability to compete with manufacturing facilities and therefore, was forced to become a laborer or wage earner. Once socialized production transpired and profit was the goal, widespread worker exploitation commenced. Improvements to machinery resulted in displaced laborers. Then, capitalists in competition for consumer gains, further threatened as already unstable system. Capitalism may very well be the precursor of nearly all social problems., since the ultimate goal lies in obtaining additional wealth. The state of degradation done to the environment, planet, drinking water, and air in pursuit of oil, etc., without the proper inquiry or safeguards for potential hazards based solely upon gaining riches, is nefarious to say the least.

Capitalism is defined as an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Base on the reading and the fading of the word freedom in the background, the term Capitalism is portrayed in a negative light affecting its connotation. I comprehend that the private sector is recognized as a critical driver of economic growth, which contributes significantly to poverty reduction and higher living standards for poor people, Although, the fading of the word freedom emphasizes that capitalism, controlled by private sectors who provides majority of jobs to Americans, contradicts its’ representation of the “free enterprise” system. The tone of the photograph could be described as

In the passage “The Soul of Capitalism”, Hap and Edna are “art lover, in a traditional way” (1) and Warhol’s art is modern art. Hap would not like Warhol’s art piece, because he is not “a fan of modern or abstract art” (1). Also, Hap’s thoughts were similar to the customers’ feeling toward Warhol’s art. The “Customs couldn’t tell a warhol box sculpture from the real thing”(5), which to Hap “if he can’t tell what it is”(1) then it is not art. Both Hap and the customer’s feeling were the same toward Warhol’s art, which is if they cannot identify the art piece, than it is not art. The director of the National Gallery of Canada, Charles Comfort also mentioned that if he cannot classify the ”processed cartons and tin cans as sculpture”(6).

Capitalism Throughout my duration in college, business has been my major area of concentration. Capitalism is the most central and consequential topic which has to do with business. The ideals of capitalism, over time, have faced much scrutiny. Many great minds within the past two centuries have discredited capitalism, for the virtues of socialism and the whole of society. It is

“95 per cent of economics is common sense made complicated” (Chang, 2011, p xviii). In his book, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, Korean economist, Ha-Joon Chang, assaults economic orthodoxy and questions many theories and empirical facts that we take for granted. Written shortly after the ‘credit crunch’ of 2008, Chang argues that this economic crisis was created by the free-market ideology which has been dominant since the 1980s and attempts to remove our "rose-tinted glasses that neo-liberal ideologies like [us] to wear every day" (Chang, 2011, p xiv) unveiling the ‘truth’ about capitalism that free-marketer’s won’t. Although he outlines eight principles that he believes are crucial in the redesigning of our economics systems, Chang stresses the fact that this book is not an anti-capitalist manifesto.

Due to the rapid process of globalization, the issue of whether socio-economic institutions and policies are converging or diverging across different nations has become controversial. Various literatures on comparative institutional studies has been developed, in which the Varieties of Capitalism approach by Hall and Soskice (2001) is one of the most significant concepts that is being widely discussed. According to Hall and Thelen (2005), the ‘varieties of capitalism’ is a firm-centered approach where firm is placed as a key actor and is being considered relational. It emphasizes the concept of institutional complementarities, which ‘…one set of institutions is complementary to another when its presence raises the returns

he reason this is important to know is because the system of Communism when heavily analyzed is also at the same time heavily flawed when put to practical use. To an extent, to have there be no class construct is impossible to pull of when coming from a Capitalistic system. As a systematic way of life it educates and unearths flaws of a society, such as worker exploitation, money laundering and bribery. But past that it's impossible to implement in any large society that is part of the global market such as China. Capitalism heavily favors the self, making individuals self motivated to do remedial tasks in order to have some form of possession. If you remove both the individual and the material aspect from the citizens in the society then they have little to no motivation to do anything without a reward or sign of improvement. Sooner or later this due to the inherent flaw of humans in a society will cause the same systems that were exposed to happen all over again. The second main issue of Communism is that when looked at closely, there is no end, if analyzed closely there is always some sort of ‘Master-Student’ dichotomy in all societies. Students learn from teachers, children learn from parents, works listen to a supervisor for coordination, citizens listen to military and the people listen to the active party. No matter how many times you can reform a state these things will always exist to properly function as a country. Specifically to China, this is no different, and

Jon Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University, states that humans are flawed and if a government wishes to be successful, it must learn to cooperate with man’s imperfections (45); he believes capitalism does this well. Mueller points out that capitalism does not “profess” to make all