Like I said, Pure Communism is usually very bad for a country.
Pure Communism is GREAT on a small scale, like a village or isolated community. But on a national scale it's not too good.
HERE'S MY POINT. Extreme Communism and extreme Capitalism are both flawed. The best system would be a hybrid of both.
The U.S. system is pretty good. But it has a few big problems. Like the privatization of health care, the corruption, the inequality.
I just don't understand why everyone love Capitalism so much on this forum, and there's this kind of closed minded and blind support for Capitalism by lots of people who don't know shit about economics.
I guess I would love Capitalism too if I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and benefitted from it all my life.
Why do people support a free market, i.e., capitalism? Because no other system has come close to producing the high standard of living we enjoy and take for granted. Capitalism doesn't make you greedy it motivates you to do something. Why is it greedy to what to improve your lot in life and standard of living? Greed is wanting only to succeed yourself and others to fail. You want everything and want the rest to have nothing. In America, contrary what people seem to think, we actually want others to be successful. They are the ones who grow the economy and provide jobs. Do you resent those that have built a successful business and provided a good and/or service that people actually want? They are the ones that increase the standard of living and grow wealth. The government CANNOT created wealth. They can only redistribute it, confiscate it, and in some cases destroy it by regulations. WHY would you want to turn over more of your freedoms to the government?
You think air conditioning, refrigeration, automobiles, food in the grocery stores, variety of clothes for cheap, microwave ovens.... the list goes on and on. None of this innovation occurs in a planned economy.
You don't seem to realize that in a Communist country you have no middle class. You have the small percentage that are very rich and the majority are poor. Only in a capitalist economy can a poor person rise above his class and become well off or even rich. You think Coach would be making six figures living in one of the most upper class areas in California if he live in North Korea, Middle East or any other government controlled economy?
You have it completely the opposite. Communism is good only if you are born into a privilege class. The only people who romanticize Communism are those that haven't lived under it's oppressive boot. My brother hosted an East German in a student exchanged program and had her parents and grandparents over for a visit. They remarked that one of the things that most struck them was when they walked into a grocery store. They said you have everything. The colors in the produce section was mind boggling. Fruits of all kind.
Imagine that, "colors in the produce section." You... WE, take so much for granted here.
BFRS, you started a thread indicating that you might be moving to Texas. Why would you want to come back here? OK, you got a good job opportunity. Why no job opportunities in Russia, Belarus, Vietnam, Kazakhstan? Why haven't you gotten any job opportunities in a Communist country? If you did, would you go? Cuba ain't Japan, my friend.
