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I think that capitalism is a flawed system that will always have an exploited "class" no matter how prosperous the population is as a whole. CMV

I have a BA in engineering and I am currently a medical student. I study financial engineering courses online in my free time. Based on my - albeit very basic - knowledge of psychiatry and my experiences in medicine, I believe that people are very much shaped by their environment. If you are born into poverty you are likely to die in poverty, if you are born into wealth you are likely to die with wealth. 

I also believe that intelligence is a product of your upbringing and access to information. I defintely don't believe that I would have got where I've gotten today if I wasn't born into a fairly privalaged family. I have worked hard, but not nearly as hard as some of those less fortunate than me have done to accomplish similar feets.

Given these beliefs, I can't bring myself to believe that capitalism is an optimal system. We have more available resources, more technology and more knowledge today than we have ever possesed in the history of mankind. Yet for some reason, we still have class divides. We still have people that have limited access to food, water and medicine. People like you and me, who were just born in less fortunate circumstances. People with the exact same potential to be a doctor, lawyer, banker, pop star, etc. only they weren't born in the right family. All of this is despite the fact that their is enough wealth in the system to give everyone the tools and conditions they need to succeed.

I don't think under a capitalist system, these people will ever escape poverty. Under capitalism, there will always be a class of people (idential in every other aspect of humanity) that will be exploited. CMV

Edit: I made a correction in the 3rd paragraph from effective to optimal. I realize Capitalism is the reason we are where we are today, what I don't see is why we don't pursue another, more just, system with current technology and capabilities.

** 2nd Edit: My main problem is the poor. I believe the idea that Capitalism will alway have the poor is its fundamental flaw and the reason alternatives should be sought out. I can see myself changing my opinion based on two scenarios:

1) Someone explains a feasible way Capitalism will one day lead to equal rights for all of humanity.

or

2) Someone explains to me why all of humanity is not entitled to equal rights.
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> We have more available resources, more technology and more knowledge today than we have ever possesed in the history of mankind. Yet for some reason, we still have class divides.

Why is that necessarily surprising/counter-intuitive?

> All of this is despite the fact that their is enough wealth in the system to give everyone the tools and conditions they need to succeed.

The wealth is a _product_ of the system, though. It doesn't exist independently from it.

For instance: I've heard people say things like "world hunger is not an issue of growing food, it's an issue of economics -- there's enough food to end world hunger right now, but the wrong people have it".

Sure, wealthy people have excess food while some have less than enough. But _why_ do the wealthy people have the amount of food they do? It's because they were able to convince someone to give it to them, via some form of trade. The people that gave them the food did so because of what they received in exchange. The _reason_ we have as much food in the world as we do is because people are incentivized to produce food for people with wealth. Such food-producers would not be as incentivized to produce food if they did not stand to get value in exchange for it.

> Under capitalism, there will always be a class of people (idential in every other aspect of humanity) that will be exploited.

What kinds of exploitation are you referring to?