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    Capitalism has never existed but the closest thing to pure capitalism is a mixed economy. There are pro’s and cons of a Capitalist Economy the pros are Economic freedom helps political freedom. If governments own the means of production and set prices. Than it all leads to a powerful state and creates a large bureaucracy which may extend into other areas of life. Economic growth is another pro of capitalism economy. With firms and individuals facing incentives to be innovative and working hard

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    The state hampering with a capitalist economy can have positive and negative to society. Theorist such as Hayek was against state intervention and believed in the neoliberalist movement, which meant that firms would are able to privatize their businesses and still trade in free markets. Hayek identifies that capital theory “was an area where he found that the coordinating processes of the market were underappreciated” and that the “evolved institutions and market competition as irreplaceable means

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    A Capitalist Economy vs Socialist Economy There are a variety of economic systems today, which can influence how prosperous we will be as individuals or as a group. Socialism is an economic system where the government will be greatly involved in the economy. In a socialist economy the government can control many industries, provide public institutions such as health care and education, and equalize incomes of the population. A socialist economy is one of low unemployment and stability,

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    A capitalistic economy is a free markets and a absence of government intervention in economy. The government isn’t totally absence because they wouldn’t be able to protect private property. When in a capitalistic economy the taxes are beyond crazy because they pay for welfare, health, education, and national defence. Some problems we would have with capitalism is there is inequality, monopoly and environmental problems. With inequality it because the economic system leads to inequality of wealth

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    Throughout our Communication Studies, we have examined the capitalist economy through a critical lens and as a result, corporations always appear at the forefront of debate, blame, and power. From a neo-liberalist economic standpoint, the typical “prosumer” is encouraged to create consumer-generated content, but what happens when you put your creative labour to the test? York University consistently advocates, “this is your time”; in other words, students are responsible for their own success and

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    Consumer Culture is at the root of all social, political and economic development of western cultures for the past three hundred years. Advertisements become a key role in creating ideological messages and meanings. In a consumer culture and capitalist economy, advertisement becomes a tool used by corporations to influence the minds of the buyer. When a company produces an ad or commercial, their main objective is to get the viewers’ attention in order to sell the product. Many different methods are

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    address he stated income inequality as the biggest problem facing the future of the world. Income inequality is defined as the unequal distribution of wealth throughout a group’s population (Inequality). Inequality is a natural side effect of a capitalist economy, but when it’s left unchecked like in most 3rd world countries it creates growing divides that hamper growth, prosperity, happiness and the general well-being of the population (Economist). Across the globe we are seeing more of income being

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    Technocapitalism is a term used to cover the relationship between information technology and the capitalist economy. The term was probably coined by Douglas Kellner in 1997, as part of an examination of trends in production from the perspective of the Frankfurt School, and is used in a Marxian context to describe the use of technology to prop up capitalism and its social relationships, generally in negative terms. New economic activities are emerging that are representative of technocapitalism.

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    Assigntment 3 – Cities and cultures Cities future Zombies and androids have both been used as productive ways of imagining city futures. Develop an argument in which you use one of these two tropes as a conceptual tool for critiquing the current direction of urban identity, either by revealing a problem or by articulating an alternative. Dystopian science fiction films of the past have frequently presented a critical dystopia, by projecting future cities that perpetuates corporate capitalism’s

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    extrapolate the allocation capital of a single firm across the entire economy, Marx devised the concept of total social capital. This term refers to the average arrangements of capital in each sector of the economy, averaged across all spheres of the economy. Capital inherently generates an annual surplus, which in turn influences the level of variable capital employed. The surplus produced by capital is divided into revenue for the capitalist or reinvested in production. This reallocation of surplus ultimately

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