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cap·i·tal·ism

   [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm]  Show IPA

noun

an economic system in which investment in and ownership of themeans of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations,especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned meansof wealth.

The primary concern of many caring souls in the 21st century is the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Entire cultures starve to death on one side of the world while others haplessly dispose of their excess. Even in the blessed west low wage earners and the unemployed strain to see the virtues of their society when weighed against the corpulence of the wealthy and arguably the ruling class.

While a true caste system may not exist in the United States, and of course it is still possible to rise from meager means into extravagance, the consciousness of the in-justness perpetuated by capitalism is beginning to take foot.

For now, someone said it better:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/protesters-against-wall-street.html?_r=2&src=tp