“bottom line is this: You Marxists, or whatever you want to call yourselves deal in what if. Capitalism deals in the bottom line-reality, what IS. All the theory you can regurgitate from books you read, or borrow from your favorite rebel leaders fails to address reality. I haven't read one instance where anyone of you has laid out some kind of plan as to implementing your socialist paradise. it's always, `you ignorant capitalist pig slave drivers will never let us experiment with pure socialism`.”
It seems every month or so some idiot makes the same thread in the GOM.
“how will you address the issue of motivation to succeed without the incentive within capitalism?
How will scientific and technological advances be realized without the ingenuity found only within capitalism?”
In a Capitalist nation the incentive to work is "work so you can pay your rent, your mortgage, credit card, school loans, your over-priced food, healthcare, transportation, entertainment, and so on or you STARVE". THAT is the only incentive capitalism offers us. Why work more efficiently at work if you know you have to be there for 8 hours no matter what? Under socialism, the incentive to come up with more efficient ways to do things is that we'd have to work less time to do the same amount of work…the amount of NECESSARY labor needed to produce the things we NEED like food, housing, etc. would gradually decrease, eventually we would work a lot less.
What’s humorous is people pronounce capitalist countries make the finest products, the best quality etc. The truth is for every one good product there are a hundred shit products. This is what happens in a capitalist nation…big companies taking shortcuts to save a few bucks. It doesn’t matter if the product is shitty, unsafe, or useless. As long as they can sell it they will.
There are countless examples of scientific and technological advances that are being suppressed by capitalism. A great example of this would be electronic paper, which was discovered in the late 70’s by Xerox. At that time they didn’t know how to market this idea and instead of sharing this information with the scientific community they buried it for over 20 years, just recently have they started playing around with it. How many companies and research centers have stumbled across new ideas and new technologies only to throw it away because their marketing team didn’t know how to make a profit from it? How is this advancing the scientific community?
Any new idea or scientific breakthrough is crucial for human advancement and a system that favors money instead of an idea is not helping mankind, it is only slowing down the process. A nation where profit does not get in the way of science, a nation where man has more free time to study and explore, a nation that gives equal education to every child is the only way the human race will advance.
