Capitalism Detrimental to Social Justice

The task is to argue if capitalism detrimental to social justice. To start the argument I’ll define detrimental according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Detrimental means obviously harmful or damaging, it’s synonymous to the word pernicious.

In my own opinion capitalism is indeed detrimental to social injustice for in capitalism exploitation of the proletariat class is evident. The bourgeoisie or the ruling class controls almost everything; they even act as gods manipulating almost every action of their dummies.

In a capitalistic society as time passes by the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer. It’s a sad fact that our own country the Philippines is partly capitalistic and its one of the major reasons why poverty prevails in our Bayang Sinilangan. We celebrate Independence Day yet we forget the essence of true freedom. Most of us have forgotten that our heroes didn’t die just for us to continue being manipulated by the rich foreign countries; acting as friends yet using us unnoticeably. What’s more hurting is that we even exploit our own kind.

Capitalism for me is a ghost that hunts each one of us and will hunt the future generation. It’s hard to run away from the truth, that it’s difficult to break away from the chains of capitalism. Through capitalism the ones who supply raw materials, the farmers the fishermen and other lowly people involved in agriculture are paid less than what they deserve and the ones who buy the materials are over pricing and continuously holding the necks of the proletariat. It’s difficult to move up in the hierarchy of this system to.

Capitalism is detrimental to social justice no matter how we convince ourselves of its posstive effects of it. To minimize if not eradicated capitalism in our country is like a dream that’s as high as Mt. Everest-so difficult to fulfill.