Capitalism: Difference between revisions

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]] expressing a similarly negative analysis, ([[TV]]: ''[[Oxygen (TV story)|Oxygen]]'') but the [[Third Doctor|Third]] having more 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  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]]'').