Free Market is the Answer to the Human Condition!
[QUOTE=JustTK;2721671]The global superpower has 125.000. 000 out of 330.000. 000 living pay check to pay check. Is that an outcome that you think is successful? If so, we live in different worlds.
Any discttor that is corrupt is bad for a country. That statement applies to all economic systems, not just socialism.
Competition is supposedly baked in to the idea behind capitalism. So of course, overcoming an annhialating your competitiors is part of the capitalist process. It is part of the free market. What many people fail to heed is that in the end stages of capitalism (what we see now) is that markets become oligopolies or monopolies that are protected by government (bcos those oligarchs become so powerful that they can buy poltcal policy). Those markets become what the opposite of what was promised. Junk products, terrible service, at exhorbitant prices. Just look around you for countless examples of that.
Why would Colomibians be experts on Venezuela? As the saying goes, opinions are like AR $eholes. Everyone has one..[/QUOTE]Of course, just my opinion. I truly feel that the free market and many elements of Capitalism will be the fastest way to solve all of humanities problems in terms of providing a sufficient amount of essential resources to meet the needs of people. When you have a society that are home owners, employed in careers which provide health care and pensions, owners of personal transportation, and money left over to be spent on luxury goods which contributes to forging a deep rich satisfying cultural shared by your countrymen- you have solved the "big" problems of governing a nation. The free market and private business have proved without a doubt through history that through innovation in technology it has contributed more to solving these problems than any of other economic system. Look at the most important inventions in history and they were all developed in the private sector and purchased and sold in the free market.
Again, your criticisms of Capitalism are old and harken back to the days of early industry in the late 1800's. Yes Monopolies can form and they can take advantage of the consumer by charging high prices and they can eliminate competitors through bribing politicians. That can happen if you have a corrupt society, which the vast majority of industrialized societies do not allow to happen. Government regulation of the private sector is essential to prevent corruption. I am sure corruption still goes on, but not to the point where it's going to have a significant impact on society. Look at every single industry and look at all the variety the consumer has to select from. The issues you speak about have been solved long ago. Yes monopolies and corrupt Oligarchies are a possible negative consequence of Capitalism, which is why transparency and government regulation of the private sector is so important. You speak about junk service, terrible products, and high prices as they are guaranteed to occur in a free market, but history has shown that when those problems arise, the seller loses business to others sellers who are providing better products and service at more fair prices. Simple as that.
In a perfect world where everyone is exactly equal and everyone was born to contribute equally, yes socialism would be great, but that is not the world we live in right now. Maybe a generation from now, we will have more cohesive societies who are not corrupted by greed and they successfully follow Norway's example of incorporating socialist elements into their economic systems. Based off what I have seen, people will still be greedy corrupt assholes just out for themselves and the most fair solution to keep them productive is the "Free Market Capitalist Economic System".
You criticize people in my country who live pay check to pay check, yet people by the millions are illegally traveling thousands of miles to enter my country because the reality is, even if you poor by the standards of the USA, you are still better off than if you are middle class in Latin America. Like I said, these people would kill just to have a home, heat / AC, Wi-Fi, food, educational opportunities, and affordable public transportation, and most importantly- they can find employment.
Is it plausible to come to the conclusions that people in Haiti have brought poverty to themselves through lack of personal responsibility? Why are you allowing a population boom and having multiple children when you cannot even afford to feed yourself? Is that a responsible thing to do? Did Haiti mismanage their agricultural industries which led to infertile soil and killed their most important natural resource- sugar cane? I don't have the answer to those questions, but I do know that if you do not fulfill your personal responsibilities in any society, then you will be poor economically.
Just because Cuba and Venezuela allow democracy and a free market to enter their society does not mean they are going to get fucked by the USA. It does mean they continue to be ruled by a dictator in a planned society where they are free to make the most of themselves and they will most likely remain in poverty as a best case scenario, and starve to death or turn to a life of crime in a worst case scenario. This is facts. How could it possibly be worse to play ball with the world and allow your people to have a say in their governments than just remain with low levels of freedom and extreme poverty and crime?
