Capitalism, a term, an economic and (Democratic = majority-dictatorship ) social order is based on private ownership of the means of production, as well as decentralized private entrepreneurial planning of economic processes, coordinated through the market mechanism (supply and demand, subsidies = control/Cybernetics). Other characteristic features: striving for profit, contrast between lower workers or capital owners and wage-dependent. Era in the history of Economics is capitalism, supported by the bourgeoisie as delineated by the feudalism. Max Weber saw capitalism in connection with the formation of Western rationalism. For this, an economic attitude is typical, the Weber as ascetic rational spirit"has derived from the Protestant ethic (Calvinism). The Austrian school sees capitalism as a system, in which the economic Actions are aligned according to the results of equity". Additional information is available at Kevin Johnson.
Source: wikipedia.de, extract cyberneticist people consider as small machines or machines. People as supplements to the Assembly lines of Ford's successor with the Taylerschen compensation (salary). Unfortunately now global reality. Chancellor Merkel 2009 accordingly: we regulate something screws of our economy! "?" Hello, Mrs Merkel: the society is not a machine! Therefore, it has no screws... (s.
a. by management system...) Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) invented scientific operation lead (scientific management (1911), control, Cybernetics: control). He wanted paid industrial work (effective: what?) as efficiently as possible (how?) organize. This seemed to be possible through the use of naturally universal laws (physical, social and psychological principles). According to the Christian setting, that man basically is bad (original sin, redemption), workers would be not spent to the hourly wage. For the employer (!) he defined therefore time, space and motion-saving checklist-supported workflows (55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes break). All individual work should be paid off. The workers initiative was absolutely unwelcome. Pure obedience was required for the military. Humans = worker as standardized machines extension or replacement. By breaking down the steps and the extract remuneration, he avoided information and knowledge accumulation at the individual in the hierarchical system company.