Communism is far from perfect. The issue with communism it is far too difficult to motivate people. Without proper compensation people will not strive to innovate. I recently wrote an essay that got published in "The Progressive" about what happened to the American Dream. The point of it was that the largest stregnth of capitalism is that it combats that motivational threat giving the opportunity to make endless amounts of money. However it no longer works! How could it when the average lawyer makes 95k per year and the average corporate lawyer makes 400k? When teachers make 34k but brokers make 295K. Engineers, architects, programmers, etc can't motivate people because their wages have become stagnated and price of living increases. No one can be motivated anymore to bring value to this country. So if you want to compare it to communism. With communism you have lack of innovation but a higher standard of living, with capitalism you
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Gunther Shamus
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I think the opportunity given to us in a capatalistic system is amazing it is possible through my own ingenuity hard work cleverness and luck to be a completely filthy rich son of a bitch in communism I would have to work with other people like they are equal blah get told by the government what to do blah make an average (mediocre) living dependent upon how well my government is doing blah maybe I'm not as good a person as you communists...maybe I'm just more fascinated by the opportunity's available and freedom given to me
on the other hand I find our society very depressing with such blatant inequality between education in city schools vs rural schools...American education between European education.......I think the only thing the government owes me is roughly equal education with my peers a good living working learning environment and to stay out of my damn bussiness oh yah and to deport all the crazy left and right w
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Gunther Shamus
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oh yah and our roided military 40% of worlds military spending yet noone feels safe and we have a 15 trillion dollar debt wtf obviously the defense of our nation needs to fall to our nations people and not some jacked up 1% (good way to cut spending) and for all I know all these weapons are going to be obsolete in 10 years and we will be overrun by China while Europe mocks us
Gunther, you spend your 40% there on the military to ensure an oil/energy supply for as long as it can be eeked out of the ground. Good investment?