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Originally Posted by Godot
well.... not exactly, China seems to be thriving under a system not
capitalistic.
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The Government (and their cronies) thrive, leaving everyone else to live in poverty. Not to mention China gradually shifting towards Capitalism.
The number of Chinese citizens filing patents have grown 557% - between 1994 and 2005!
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Originally Posted by Godot
you can kick your leaders , you cant kick a board of directors, or stockholders
or a CEO that is raping you and your neighbors and your coutrymen everyday of every week year in year out.... he doesnt care who's in political power as
long as the wheels keep turning and his bonus clause isnt infringed upon.
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CEOs' and board members *do* get dismissed, if the public and/or investors are dissatisfied of their performance.
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But the reality of the collective -- as we know from Wikipedia -- is that in fact, there are always a few cadres who really run things. So all this system does is remove *real* responsibility mandated in a corporate hierarchy with titles and specific job descriptions, and puts that management function into the hands of crypto-bosses and shifting figures in charge of ad-hoc groups with changing loyalties.
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Uravnilovka -- levelling down, dumbing down, making everyone artificially equal in the name of egalitarianism. This word is best summed up by the anecdote about the difference between a Soviet and American. The Soviet who didn't have a cow would see that his neighbour had a cow, and ask the state to take it away from the neighbour, and have the two share it on a collective farm; the American would see that his neighbour had a cow, and work hard and strive to emulate him and earn a cow himself. Lindens believe they play no favourites, that everyone is equal, but precisely because they maintain that fiction, they break it, by creating an advance guard -- themselves -- with their selective advisors
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-- Registered Democrat Prokofy Neva:
The Leninism of Linden