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A [[The Doctor (Sympathy for the Devil)|version of]] [[the Doctor]] from an [[Alternate universe]] described '''capitalism''' in the following way; "Some people win; most lose all they had.", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emporium At The End (audio story)|The Emporium At The End]]'') although there was disagreement as to whether or not this descriptor was also fairly applicable to the version of Captalism in operation in [[N-Space]], as well, with various incarnations of the "prime" Doctor displaying different opinions on this; with, for instance, the | A [[The Doctor (Sympathy for the Devil)|version of]] [[the Doctor]] from an [[Alternate universe]] described '''capitalism''' in the following way; "Some people win; most lose all they had.", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emporium At The End (audio story)|The Emporium At The End]]'') although there was disagreement as to whether or not this descriptor was also fairly applicable to the version of Captalism in operation in [[N-Space]], as well, with various incarnations of the "prime" Doctor displaying different opinions on this; with, for instance, the [[Twelfth Doctor|Twelfth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') Doctors expressing similarly negative analyses, but the [[Third Doctor]] having mixed views, believing unemployment to be "Capitalism’s biggest problem", but admitting to the [[President (The Paradise of Death)|President]] that he "seem[ed] to have fixed" that. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]''). | ||
Capitalism was sometimes juxtaposed with [[Feudalism]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''), or [[Communism]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]''). | Capitalism was sometimes juxtaposed with [[Feudalism]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]''), or [[Communism]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)|Brotherhood of the Daleks]]''). | ||
Capitalism could be exploited to the extreme with no regard to the lives of others. [[Ganymede Systems]] began to not providing [[oxygen]] in [[space station]]s and forced people to buy it via [[Smartsuit|smart suits]]. They also began killing workers when they hadn't been productive enough and brought into new workers. However, thanks to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], a rebellion was started and Ganymede Systems was overthrown. According to the Doctor, the incident "about wrap[ped] it up for capitalism." but clarified its end only led to humanity making "a new mistake" ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') | Capitalism could be exploited to the extreme with no regard to the lives of others. [[Ganymede Systems]] began to not providing [[oxygen]] in [[space station]]s and forced people to buy it via [[Smartsuit|smart suits]]. They also began killing workers when they hadn't been productive enough and brought into new workers. However, thanks to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], a rebellion was started and Ganymede Systems was overthrown. According to the Doctor, the incident "about wrap[ped] it up for capitalism." but clarified its end only led to humanity making "a new mistake" ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]''). | ||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] was assumed to be a capitalist by several people in [[Spain]]. [[Fitz Kreiner]] branded [[Anji Kapoor]] a "capitalist [[pig]]" who was in turn surprised by how similar career communists and career capitalists were. | The [[Eighth Doctor]] was assumed to be a capitalist by several people in [[Spain]]. [[Fitz Kreiner]] branded [[Anji Kapoor]] a "capitalist [[pig]]" who was in turn surprised by how similar career communists and career capitalists were. | ||
While fighting in the [[Spanish Civil War]], [[Bob Edwards]] used a megaphone to shout out lengthy political arguments about the capitalist system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') | While fighting in the [[Spanish Civil War]], [[Bob Edwards]] used a megaphone to shout out lengthy political arguments about the capitalist system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'') | ||
==Behind the scenes== | |||
In real life, Capitalism is the global economic system following Feudalism. It has been defined in various ways, with wage labour, commodity production for profit, private ownership of the means of production, voluntary exchange, competitive markets, and many more, all being suggested by various sources as "a defining feature". However, no attempt at any sort of definition, whether mainstream, libertarian, Marxist, or of any other nature, has been made in the series, meaning this page can only include examples that specifically use the ''word'' capitalism. This means that stories such [[PROSE]]: ''[[Closing the Account (short story)|Closing the Account]]'', featuring the Doctor meeting Stalin and implying that Capitalism will be overthrown some unspecified time in humanity’s future, and [[TV]]: ''[[Kerblam! (TV story)|Kerblam!]]'' featuring a line about how "the problem isn’t the System", (referring in-universe to an AI program literally called "the System", albeit with an obvious metatextual implication) cannot be mentioned in the in-universe portion of the page. | |||
[[Category:Economic ideologies]] | [[Category:Economic ideologies]] | ||
[[Category:Economics from the real world]] | [[Category:Economics from the real world]] | ||
