Does Capitalism promote and encourage Greed?

Don't kid yourself, men within all systems are greedy. Capitalism is the only system that actually includes a market and directs goods and services to the doorstep of the consumer... all other systems are ran by the government, and the government uses that power to plan out every little thing its subjects do, and controls who is to get what. They create dependents and rob people of their right to be free. Capitalism's corollary is classical liberalism, which makes government's only permitted end the protection of private property rights, including life. This kind of Liberalism is the only workable system if we want a peaceful world, since it promotes cooperation on both the international and domestic scales. War is actually a by-product of systems of intervention rather than free market capitalism/liberalism because it interferes with the attainment of consumer needs and wants in exchange for war products, which do not raise the net living standard. It is in no way a coincidence that the Capitalist movement and the Liberty movement have gone hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, our government schools do not like capitalism because capitalism limits the powers of government... and let's face it, most people do not study economics thoroughly... it's very uninteresting and dull... and these same people are the ones who think capitalism is the devil and the government is on the eve of creating a health care utopia. Sadly, they are also the ones who will continue to blame the "free market" for the failures of the government, like we did for decades with managed care. I sincerely hope people wake up.

Yes Capitalism is a very greedy system. We needed Capitalism in early America but the scales are too unbalanced now. A capitalistic society is not just making profits they are stealing from workers. From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Captalism is an economic and social system in which capital, the non-labor factors of production (also known as the means of production), is privately owned; labor, goods and capital are traded in markets; and profits distributed to owners or invested in technologies and industries."

"There is no consensus on the definition of captialism, nor how it should be used as an analytical category. There are a variety of historical cases over which it is applied, varying in time,
geography, politics and culture. Economists, political economists and historians have taken different perspectives on the analysis of capitalism.. Scholars in the social sciences, including historians, economists, anthropologists and philosophers have debated over how to define captialism, however there is little controversy that private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services

for profit in a market, and prices and wages are elements of capitalism."

Origins of Socialism: "The English word socialism (1839) derives from the French socialisme (1832), the mainstream introduction of which usage is attributed, in France, to Pierre Leroux, and to Marie Roch Louis Reybaud; and in Britain to Robert Owen in 1827, father of the cooperative movemnt. Although socialist models and ideas espousing common ownership have existed since antiquity with the classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, the modern concept of socialism evolved in response to the development of industrial capitalism. Early socialism was seen as an extension of classical liberalism by extending liberty and rights to the industrial economic aspect of life, so that these values were compatible with the then-emerging industrial society."

"The first advocates of socialism favoured social levelling in order to create a meritocratic or technocratic society based upon individual talent. Count Henri de Saint-Smon is regarded as the first individual to coin the term socialism. Simon was fascinated by the enormous potential of science and technology and advocated a socialist society that would eliminate the disorderly aspects of capitalism and would be based upon equal opportunities. He advocated the creation of a society in which each person was ranked according to his or her capacities and rewarded according to his or her work. The key focus of Simon's socialism was on administrative efficiency and industrialism, and a belief that science was the key to progress."