Honestly, it's capitalism. Not necessarily that it makes those children have to be slaves. Well, not on purpose.
Capitalism encourages several different attitudes. Like innovation, and ambition. It also encourages greed, and while not all people are greedy, there are many who are. Without greed, capitalism does not function. It needs those exploited workers, those poor souls.
See, capitalism is a growing, spiraling thing. It works by getting larger. It works because of debt. That sucks some serious balls for those who aren't the one percent. It's a really interesting thing: while the theory is that those who work get ahead, and the lazy people fall behind, it doesn't work that way.
There are only a number of spots up there. The system isn't going to make room for more people. You might notice there are a few popular The landed get more money, and the aspiring can't reach them when they try. Though the U.S. government has regulations to prevent monopolies, it has made exceptions when the job can't be done by anything but a monopoly, which has happened before.
But that's capitalism. We don't actually have that here. If we did, businesses would be making sex-robot-guns out of baby skin. Well, the successful ones would. What we have is a mixture of capitalism and socialism. On the whole "Capitalism-Communism" spectrum, the U.S. sits somewhere around 75% capitalist. We've moved to the left in past years, but we have fluctuated since we were first a country.
Something people love to point out when talking about regulation is that communism has never been successful. That's true. Neither has capitalism.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it lasts long. But that's because of a few reasons:
1) It has popular support, because it sounds very nice, just like communism. Unlike communism, it's biggest supporters are landed men.
2) It works the way a fire does, where adding fuel lets it burn longer. But it is in no way a controlled and closed system. It requires stimulus, since it literally runs on debt. But, that's much better than simply not being possible. Which segues me nicely to...
3) Communism was founded on altruism. On the idea that people would have what they would need, and just that. But that is not natural, not at all. Instinct, formed by years of evolution, reinforces greed. Ambition, a need to have something better is natural. Maybe not good, but natural. So, while communism fails because it's unrealistic and doesn't work right, capitalism fails because it works the way it is supposed to. To me, collapsing because it works seems to be a sign that a theory is not that great of an idea.
We have to make a compromise between unrealistic hopes and idiotic reality. At least, that's how it seems to me. Again, I'm not a genius so I don't know how to fix, well, anything now that I think about it. Least of all the world economy.
Just voicing my opinion. Maybe I'm horribly, horribly wrong. I don't know. I'd have to tell someone what I think and hear what they have to say to be able to judge with any degree of accuracy.
