Neither system works, stupid!

I was watching a documentary on the TV 2 or 3 days ago. It never ceases to amaze me that the most insightful statements usually come from the ordinary man in the street.

The documentary was covering the rise and fall of communism. An ordinary looking guy was interviewed at some fair or car boot sale or some such. He said something like “You know communism never worked, but we discovered also that capitalism doesn’t work either, its better, but it doesn’t really work too well”.

The trouble is that capitalism and communism are two opposing philosophies that achieve the same deadbeat result.

Communism rewards everybody the same despite variations in work ethic, skills and ingenuity. This system falls down because there is no incentive to work hard. Therefore no-one bothers or, with a few exceptions, are made to work at the point of the gun.

Capitalism allows someone to earn massive amounts of money doing very little, and the rest of us scrape by. It also survives on the slavery of the people in other countries. While the capitalist country enjoys the wealth, people in Thailand, and the Philippines work for very little and very few employee rights. Even the fastest growing economy in the world, China, the workers are paid next to nothing.

So the truth is Communism doesn’t work at all, and never did. Capitalism works on an “I’m alright Jack” basis if you are prepared to ignore the wretched conditions people work in to keep it propped up.

There are better systems that do work, will cover that tomorrow. This is the end of my thought for today.

22nd March 2009.

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