First of all, when you call someone a "bum", it isn't substantive criticism. Second of all, while the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused ~200k deaths, whereas 200k-580k Chinese died in Changde from a singular use of Japanese biological warfare.

Ah yes of course. Him calling you a bum isn't "substantive criticism", but the Bundy defence is "substantive criticism" (i.e. it was fine for me to rape her because Bundy did it too).

Winston, your posts contain lots of big words and absolutely zero reason. It's fairly comical.

My 98 year old Grandma used to say "Everything in moderation." About sex she said: "Twice a week, and no more, in a year, a hundred times and four."

Capitalism is the same, too much of a good thing can be bad! We've experienced that since Reagan. Capitalism has run amok and only the "bigly capitalists" have prospered leaving the working class WAY behind! Now, to combat the extra money being paid to, say, McDonalds workers, Mickey D's is going robotic!

Trump says giving lower taxes will cause employers to give more to its employees ....WHAT A LAUGH! They'll spend more on robotics because they don't give a DAMN about anything but enriching their capitalistic asses! About their bottom line on Wall Street! FK America and its taxes, anyway!

Capitalism is a great thing, until it get's abused. Today, capitalism that built America, is destroying it! We NEED to CONTROL it somewhat ... or end up sold to the highest bidder!

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There is a big difference between invention, and development and distribution.

I think we would have better conversations if you would just read what I write, instead of adding things into it that I do not write. I discuss development and distribution, but you don't catch that that is different from invention.

That is because I only meant development and distribution.

Why bother arguing against things I did not say?

By your own logic computers could not have been invented without the discovery of electricity, and that happened in 17th century Europe

Actually the first reprogrammable computer was not electric. Konrad Zuse invented the first reprogrammable computer in 1945, and it was mechanical. Despite when it was invented, only cash rich institutions had computers until the mid 1970s, but capitalists invested in the production of transistors and later the microchip, and made investments in development, applied economies of scale, and ultimately made devices small enough and cheap enough that ordinary people could afford them in the US by the late 1980's in the US and Western Europe, when previously, only governments and resource rich institutions could afford them.

There is a big difference between whether a few institutions in the world have something (e.g., computers in 1959) and whether those things are distributed to upwards of 5 billion people.

The Soviets had the same (or more advanced) computer technology during the same period, but did not even begin to be able to distribute computers to the people by the fall of the USSR. In fact, distribution of cars, and even food was problematic in the USSR. After the fall of the USSR, and the subsequent institution of capitalism, it took less than 3 decades to distribute that technology widely throughout formerly Soviet nations.

Plumbing was invented long before the middle ages, and in some places, like medieval Britain, it was known to feudal rulers. However, it was not further distributed among the nobility, peasantry, or serfs. It was not until the mechanisms of capitalism made it profitable for people to invest in development, use and distribution of methods for mass production of plumbing supplies, and the subsequent sale and distribution of indoor plumbing systems and fixtures etc. to ordinary people that it became commonplace in the industrialized world.

Capitalism's DEMONSTRATED ability to distribute en masse products like food, cars or computers and indoor plumbing to the people certainly has a track record of doing better than feudalism or communism.

What proven system do you recommend as being more effective than capitalism at distribution of goods and services, like food, cars, or computer technology and plumbing”.

technology to enable more people to come in contact with it, and then use it to develop other related technologies?

You often criticise Islam Marcus, but the problem is that Muslims invented clocks and maps. So again, using your own logic, you can't criticise Islam because without it you wouldn't know where you are or what time of day it is.

Do you know the Chinese had water clocks 1400 years before Mohammed, and the Greeks & Romans had clocks 800 years before Mohammed. The Chinese had maps at least by 1000 years before Mohammed. Sure, some Muslim made the innovation of the pendulum, but innovation is distinct from invention.

Also, you inexplicably fail to see that my acknowledgement that Islam as written in the Quran and Hadith, and as practiced by at least 300 million Muslims is intolerant of other ways of living and thinking has nothing to do with whether or not maps or clocks are useful.

You also ignored my previous statements that not all Muslims believe this hyper-intolerant brand of Islam.