08-15-2016, 04:35 PM
(08-15-2016, 04:17 PM)djam Wrote: Socialism is a failure on almost every level. Doesnt matter how much you try to church it up, stealing from people to pay for others diminishes motivation, and hinders greatness, creativity and individualism. It has never worked out for anyone, and the countries Bernie and his band of clueless supporters try to use as a examples have struggled very badly, so they make excuses that ' oh what we need is "more" socialism and then it will be ok' lol.
Unregulated capitalism was also a complete failure. History proved this.
I don't know of anyone here who is arguing for true socialism where the government controls all services and means of production. I think everyone agrees that the competition of capitalism is needed to drive innovation. NOt even Bernie's followers were in favor of the government controlling all industry.
But unregulated capitalism leads to oppression, death, and destruction of the environment.
So instead of arguing about which is better we have to look at what level of regulation and government involvement is needed. Because it can't be either zero or 100%.
Anyone who claims that either extreme is good just does not understand history.
