Your $100,000 Mustang Cobra will probably get more valuable with time, you could possibly even pay for your child's education with it. In terms of consumption, they aren't going to sell too many of them, but they will have to retain the same MPG average across the entire product line, so i anything it will make your commuter car more efficient. Also, these modern engines don't guzzle gas an much as those of the past.
Not even the old Shelby Cobras do well as investments. Its interesting what has happened to cars versus homes...over the last few decades. Cars are functionally better in so many ways...but have been mostly stripped of aesthetic appeal. The special cars rented out for weddings nowadays are 1950s classics. I cant see this happening to the Toyota Camry in 50 years. Homes have become larger, but of much lower quality in building materials. On the other hand, they generally have better technical safety standards...thanks to the army of lawyers waiting to pounce on every flaw.
Capitalism Is Corruption Indeed. As Spooner noted, the best way to do this is to style the laws to favor certain kinds of corruption. Which, of course, reminds that your point could equally be applied to a comparison of law and order, to the one, and anarchy to the other. Law and order works well, unless, of course, there is corruption. Anarchy can thrive amid corruption. One should always take note when capitalists describe capitalism as a law of nature. Society itself is a deviation from those "laws of nature". In this sense, capitalism is corruption. No wonder it thrives under corruption. The only demand that property recognizes is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. —Emma Goldman____________________ Notes: Goldman, Emma. "Anarachism: What it Really Stands For". 1911. DWardMac.Pitzer.edu. May 6, 2012. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html
As China is more corrupt than the US is, (perhaps four times more corrupt?) it follows (and is a fact) that China´s growth rate is about four times greater; however the fastest growth is in the still small consumer section and part of that is due to fact it is much more like Anne Rand capitalism - few government rules and regulation. Anyone can set up their noodle factory (not even a health inspector will visit, etc.) and start selling noodles.
An absence of corruption is part of law and order...so your statement is like saying law and order works well unless there isnt any law and order. Anarchy is fine for Honey Badgers, and other solitary animals... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg But we humans need a centrally organized co-operative lifestyle. Even the most primitive societies have some form of government.
The third core principle of Socialism is the prohibition of private monopolies. Executives are always seeking corporate monopolies through takeovers...and workers are always seeking monopolies through labour unions. A true socialist society will establish laws prohibiting the purchase of any MAJORITY ownership in corporate shares by any other corporation. As well as laws to establish COMPETING unions in every sector...wherein companies can select from at least three different union organizations for potential employees.
