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Originally Posted by salamander21
My point is that in capitalism, there is no specific "priority", but every person can pursue whatever individual goal they want. So if a person wants to go off and join a commune, then they can do it, but they can't drag other people who don't want to along with them. The reason why communism doesn't work is as I explained before; only lazy people like the man who does nothing but stay at home and watch TV would enjoy and encourage that system, while any other person would immediately leave upon realizing what the system is like. The lazy people can try to keep the productive ones from leaving by force, and the result is nothing other than slavery.
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You have good points. Communism is still not practicable because of the attitude and thinking of the people; some people would be too lazy etc..
But Capitalism has its problems too.
If we continue to waste ressources like in the past - and in the capitalism we will most likely do it because our consumption is very important for for the capitalism - then this will lead to serious ressource problems in few decades. Its very likely that we will be short on oil, plastics, food, water... This will lead to more wars and high spendings on military.
Other issues of the capitalism:
- very inequal distribution of wealth (1% of the woldwide richest people have about 40% of the wealth, in Germany 10% of the richest people have 61.1% of its wealth, in the US its probably even more unequal distributed)
- concerns have much more impact on political issues than the people
- war is common to help the economy
- education is far less important than then the economy
- with our bank-, interest system its likely that there is a hyperinflation every few decades (a few people believe that a hyperinflation of euro, dollar, yen, maybe pound and other currencies will likely happen in the next few years); such a hyperinflation could increase the inequality of wealth
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Then the idea arises to distribute the money, or products, according to who has done how much work to produce it,therefore eliminating the problem. But then this question arises: "How is that to be determined?"
The answer is difficult to find, and I think that the best way to determine how much a person's labor is worth is to simply let market forces do their work. Because many people see the words "market forces" as a sort of voodoo or catch-all used by capitalists, I will explain. Labor, or work is a commodity like any other. People get paid a certain amount based on how much their work is worth.
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"How is that to be deteremined" is a good question.
A possibility is that the workers of a nationalized concern vote for several experts of their concern, who determine realistic prices of their products and determine how much to produce, what to produce, earnings of their workers etc..
Im curious to see how much longer we will live in our capitalism; Maybe the end of the capitalism is not very far away.