I just finished listening to a few conversations with current US Socialists, college kids talking to what sounded like an intelligent immigrant from the old USSR, specifically Russia. There seems to be a belief in these young adults that socialism is better even after seeing how it has worked out in Venezuela, Russia, China, Cuba and many other smaller countries. For some reason, there is a belief that the rich should give up their riches because they were earned in a Capitalist environment which takes advantage of the common man. How is it taking advantage when the owner takes the risk of getting a loan, putting in the sweat and/or ideas to get the company off the ground and the common man simply comes and does a given task for an agreed upon amount of money?
One of the men being interviewed and he looked like a professor, he knew too much and was in his late 50's-60's suggested that now that all this 21st century technology has been created, admittedly in a capitalist environment here in the US, we should convert over to socialism so that everybody benefits equally. My question to him would be "Who is going to develop the 22nd century technology?" You can't be naïve enough to think this is the pinnacle of human ingenuity. It has been shown time and again that socialist countries do not focus on leading edge creation. As we have seen, the people are generally getting by or suffering worse than the worse suffer here. The man being interviewed and another person in a different interview quickly tried to say well the fascists took over after the innocent and honest socialist system had started. There was mention of how wonderful the socialist system worked in Spain for four years again before the Fascists took over as well. It seems that Socialism can't do a good enough job of defending itself. If it was initiated here, how long before Fascists took over control and then this would just become another USSR? The problem with humans is that we are greedy and selfish and most anybody put in power would have to be better than you or I to not abuse it.
Capitalism works because the government gives you free rein (with constraints to protect people to an extent) to come up with products that fill a need or create a need. Fifteen years ago we didn't know we would need phones to do everything they do. Nowadays, even grade school kids are expert at using these devices. That is an example of something created to create a need. When Henry Ford perfected the idea of the assembly line to increase productivity and makes cars available cheaply enough for the average man, he created a product to fill a need. And somehow, some socialist thinks he can show up after the fact, now that the phone has been created and when he joins the company, he should get an equal share of the profits. How about in a bad turn of events, when there is a loss, should the common man continue working for free and incur the debt that the company earns? These fools seem to think all companies just experience positive earnings and there is never a loss or a failed new product which slows the company into severe losses, what would the socialists do then?
It is a great pipe dream and when I was younger I probably leaned my thinking this way, but now that I am older I see that it is a very juvenile way to approach life. If you really want something and you think you deserve it, figure out a way to wow the masses yourself and get paid. Go create something that did not exist with all that energy being burned holding up banners and cheering empty slogans. We have our house and livelihood because we both work our asses off, not because someone gifted us an edge.
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