Second Draft Final paper

The dictionary says the definition of capitalism means, “an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth”. I would agree with this definition but it’s a very nice and sweet way of saying the rich people have the power and the poor people have no power. Capitalism is a machine that is build up of many parts including children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. Each of these four stages in a person’s life work together with one another to fuel the capitalist machine. One person might be at the child stage of there life but the child’s parents are working hard at his and her job making enough money to feed there son. While in another situation a teenager’s first job is flipping burgers for a company who is taking advantage of labor laws and working the death out of him for minimum wage. Either situation you come up with we as a whole are fueling this capitalist machine, at it is not working for us it is working against us.


child- the start of your life your parents and pawning you off at the best most affordable day care

Being a child growing up in a capitalist society has many effects on your future life. Most families in America have children that they can not raise themselves. The mother has the kid and then spends every waking moment working to get enough money to give the kid food. The father is doing the same thing and never sees his wife. They never see there kid nor have enough time to spend with him. So they hire a nanny to watch the kid and be his real mother. But that’s only if you get lucky most families send there little youngsters to a day care center with a bunch or other kids that there families can not watch there own children while there parents are sucked into the capitalist world we live in today.
Another aspect were children are involved is the mistakes there parents have made in there life’s get put on to the children from day one. Because there parents didn’t go to school so they could make money in the capitalist society the children don’t have proper cloths to wear and the right food to eat. And they have to be subjected to this awful way of living because of there parents. And most children might not even have parents and those kids have to go to an orphanage and live there lives from this false sense of happiness always thinking the people that get close to you are going to up and leave you.
On the flip side of this you have the child born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth and they get everything they could ever imagine. The few examples is the one little girl from the movie 7 up where she completely copied everything that mommy and daddy said. The interviewers were asking a 7 year old what college she was going to go to and she had an answer because that’s what her mom said she was going to go to. In the same movie the interviewers, interview three young men and ask them what there favorite newspapers were and the three 7 year olds say that the read the London times and so on. 7 year olds reading the newspaper? It was simply funny when they answered to the interviewers, its like when someone copies there friends math homework and the home work they copied was for science and they look foolish. It was the same kind of feeling. Children get affected by capitalism just as much as everyone else. The three boys they were competing on who read the better newspaper because they wanted to be looked at as a smarter person because of what newspaper they read. Capitalism effects every life stage of a person from a child, to a teenager, to an adult, and lastly the elderly.

teenager- on the way up to your peak of your life you spend your life preparing for the rest of your life

During your teenage years teenagers are made to wake up early and go to school for eight hours a day. To learn things that will help you become a better robot to work better in the capitalist society. The peak of your life and the possibilities are endless and you have to sit inside take tests work on papers and be stuck in a lifeless abyss. Not only do you have to do this to do anything else in the capitalist society you get graded and chosen on what you allowed to do based on what you are capable.
Me being a teenager I can speak a lot on this situation. I live my life working through the bullshit in high school, and the bullshit in my house. Either it’s the drama at school where you need to wear this kind of cloths to be in the cool crowd or its lying and fake people you have to feel out to find your real friends. The only way you can get these cool cloths is having money and the only way to get money is from your parents or to get a job. Getting money from your parents comes with a price though. You might have to do chores around the house to earn there money or you might be rolling in the dough where they will just fork the money over because they love you and they want to see you happy. Either way it comes down to you doing work, with your parents or your own job

adult- at the peak of your life you spend your life chasing money

Once you have been on the planet long enough for the social norm to call you an adult you have to jump into the “real” life. You need to get a job make a family and make money to be called successful. Nothing anybody does is good or worth it unless you are making money and fueling the capitalist machine. And the worst part is everyone wants to make money and continue fueling the machine. And people really get into it and they spend there whole lives in the matrix thinking that there lives are based on the money in there pocket and the clothing they wear, but really what is money? It is paper that says you have some sort of wealth to trade for things you really need like food and shelter. So if that’s the case why should anyone have more money than they really need? Why do people make money and profit buy selling food cloths and shelter? Nothing makes any sense but everyone looks past it like its second nature and no one questions it, because your no suppose to question it, your just suppose to go with it. But going with it continues to fuel the machine and not help you with your life.

eldery- durning the decline of your life you become a second class citizen and no longer needed to fit into the capitalist equation.

Once you are too old to contribute to the capitalist society you become some one who is just a waste of space in the eyes of the government. The only thing we give the elderly is a seat on the bus or train. And that’s about it. You get your social security money every month and you sit in your home watching television wasting away. There is no place that elderly fit in the money making equation. They are to slow to keep up with the daily 9-5 grind that most middle class robots do every day. And in our society we look at elderly like they have problems and they can succeed in our society. Most of them really have disease and are dying and can not function. But a lot of elderly people can fit in and help with certain things. Going back to the children elderly people like grand parents can help watching the youngsters as the parents sell there souls to the capitalist world to make a buck.