You mean advertisers, not capitalists.

I mean capitalists. Advertising is not a product of socialism, so your determination to find something to correct me about has been wasted. Capitalism is a system built upon the notion of selling you stuff and if you are not sold stuff then capitalism will collapse.

Also pervasive advertising is not a necessary consequence of capitalism

Selling you stuff is a necessary consequence of capitalism because it is the definition of capitalism.

I'm banning you because I find your efforts to distort the facts distasteful and, frankly, stupid.

Capitalism is an economic system in which businesses are developed, owned and controlled by private individuals as opposed to the state.

Already you are trying to distort language. In your very first sentence you are trying to convince us that businesses are necessary, and all we have a choice about is whether individuals or the state run them. In fact, businesses themselves are a product of capitalism.

This invariably results in the most capable and enterprising entrepreneurs vying with each other for market share.

The system is called capitalism (i.e. not "capabilism") because the people with the most capital compete for the greatest market share, and those who happen to be innovative and capable but with no capital are rejected by the system. The premise that you can compete with Coca Cola, or McDonalds for a "market share", without any capital, simply by being "capable" and "enterprising", is a radical (and purposeful) distortion of truth. In fact, I daresay you are probably quoting directly from 1980s Reaganist American Cold War propaganda.

The upshot of this system of free market competition is that to survive all the competitors must be innovative

But your original premise is demonstrably false to the point that it is absurd, so any conclusions you derive from it are going to be equally absurd. Capital is what is required to survive in capitalism, not "innovation" or "capability".

No honest, intelligent person would try to convince others that capability rather than capital is the success factor in capitalism and hence you are doing a fine job of convincing others that you are either dishonest, unintelligent, or both. The artificial upvotes used to prop up your post only give greater clues as to which it is.

Either way, I have already banned your MathFan account, and now I am banning this one for vote manipulation.

To implement Capitalism effectively takes a higher thought process, brains, determination, goals etc.

Wtf?

Capitalism punishes those attributes by virtue of prioritising the acquisition of capital above all other considerations. Do you even have the faintest idea how many geniuses are lost to famine and poverty in places like Africa? Please let me answer that for you. No, you don't.

Is this why so many Americans are racists? Do you think you are smarter than Africans because your country has more money than they do?

Man’s natural inclination is to eat. Most men understand you have to work to eat. That is how capitalism evolved.

Of course you need to eat, but you don't need to be confronted with two hundred different brands of cereal which all compete equally for your attention. I like deciding when I am hungry for myself, thank you very much. I don't like being persuaded to feel hungry, or persuaded that your food is the only type of food that will make me feel good, or persuaded to keep eating until I get fat just so you can keep selling me a product.

You have written very little in response, and what you have written is spectacularly vague purposefully so you can sidestep the points I raised. There isn't really much more to say than that.

It is Amazing that Progressives oppose a system that provides them with consumable goods.

Why? Providing me with consumable goods is not all that capitalism does. It also forces me into wage slavery, severely limits my opportunities in life and burdens me with debts I can never repay.

In fact, debt is an interesting point not yet covered. Are you aware that, because of capitalism, society has a debt which it can never afford to repay? Ever? Interest is applied by banks to every single dollar in circulation, which means that if every single dollar in circulation were to be recovered tomorrow, society would STILL owe money to capitalists.

That is a good system only in the eyes of madmen and fools.

By your admission, you yourself are a Capitalist--a 'Robin Hood Capitalist'

MathFan, I intended to ban you from this thread at the same time I opened it, but silly me thought perhaps you might have something to contribute to the discussion other than a bruised ego and a childishly spiteful character.

I have never made an "admission" that I am a capitalist for the simple reason that I am not a capitalist. Hence, either you are flatout lying (very likely) or you have been crawling through my posting history again to see if you can find any words you can take out of context and/or distort (even more likely).

I have to say that either way I am truly not interested in being attacked by you. I consider you to be an imbecile and a fine example of what failure is.

Now goodbye.