Post by littlepea on Dec 5, 2005 14:51:07 GMT -5
like i said in a previous post, those people will strive to become doctors and lawyers in a capitalist society anyway, but it's better to have the people who are only in it for the money as well as them than to be left short-staffed ... you might even end up with a bunch of enthusiastic morons rather than well paid, experienced and intelligent doctors.
you might be right when you say that things could be different if people were brought up with ideal communist values from early life, but these ideal societies still involve people and people are always going to try and cut corners if they can get away with it. communism relies on no-one ever cutting a corner and that simply won't happen.
here's a situation that i compared to capitalism and socialism which happened to me in real life: in the flat i lived in last year there were 3 of us, me, a good guy and a complete idiot. i'd buy milk so i could eat cereal and the idiot flatmate would help himself whenever he wanted a glass of milk (despite the fact i only bought semi-skimmed milk, with green caps, while he bought unskimmed milke with blue caps, so there was no excuse of it being an honest mistake). i confronted him about this because it was getting incredibly frustrating going to get a bowl of cereal at 11pm and finding all the milk gone (and the shops were closed too) and he suggested that we make up some kind of rota, and i said no just buy your own milk and don't drink mine since it's semi-skimmed and i don't like unskimmed milk (so i couldn't even help myself to his milk in return). the rota which he suggested is like communism and it would only work if everyone kept to the rota without fail - it would fail for everyone if one of us forgot to get milk after the last one had run out. what i suggested is like capitalism - if someone fails to buy milk before it runs out then the only person that loses out is himself.
from this very basic situation, it's obvious that the latter is preferable to the former.
you might be right when you say that things could be different if people were brought up with ideal communist values from early life, but these ideal societies still involve people and people are always going to try and cut corners if they can get away with it. communism relies on no-one ever cutting a corner and that simply won't happen.
here's a situation that i compared to capitalism and socialism which happened to me in real life: in the flat i lived in last year there were 3 of us, me, a good guy and a complete idiot. i'd buy milk so i could eat cereal and the idiot flatmate would help himself whenever he wanted a glass of milk (despite the fact i only bought semi-skimmed milk, with green caps, while he bought unskimmed milke with blue caps, so there was no excuse of it being an honest mistake). i confronted him about this because it was getting incredibly frustrating going to get a bowl of cereal at 11pm and finding all the milk gone (and the shops were closed too) and he suggested that we make up some kind of rota, and i said no just buy your own milk and don't drink mine since it's semi-skimmed and i don't like unskimmed milk (so i couldn't even help myself to his milk in return). the rota which he suggested is like communism and it would only work if everyone kept to the rota without fail - it would fail for everyone if one of us forgot to get milk after the last one had run out. what i suggested is like capitalism - if someone fails to buy milk before it runs out then the only person that loses out is himself.
from this very basic situation, it's obvious that the latter is preferable to the former.