2007-10-05 10:54:56 · 23 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Doesn't France have about 20% unemployment!
Isn't that why Muslims have been burning down cities!
Isn't that why they came to their senses and voted for Sarkosy!
Try reading some of his economic proposals!
2007-10-05 11:03:00 · update #1
Because for the most part people don't like being made equally poor by the Government.
2007-10-05 11:01:20 · answer #1 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Because it goes against human nature! It is the nature of people to better themselves. With Socialism, all are to be equal. Cannot work. Some people will just take & not do their share, others will work but, lack the incentive needed to inspire great ideas. All want to be rewarded for their initiative, great ideas, labor & willingness to work together for the greater good, if the rewards are there. If the rewards are not there, why bother. Everyone seeks personal recognition, to be lumped together with everyone else is not the way to better anyone's life except those who don't care.
2007-10-05 11:14:37 · answer #2 · answered by geegee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it discourages individuals from striving for excellence. Why try harder than the other guy if the reward is the same?
It's like those communal restaurants my brother wanted to go to work for up in Minnesota; at the end of the day all of the workers share the day's receipts equally, regardless of who expended the most effort. The lazy guy gets the same amount as the one who worked his tail off. It just doesn't work, and it never will.
As you can tell, little brother and I don't exactly agree on everything. :-)
2007-10-05 11:13:06 · answer #3 · answered by hlkb72 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Human nature. Most people want and will accept a free ride. And those working to provide that free ride to the lazy class soon get tired of working for nothing, so they quit to take the free ride themselves. That is when all freedoms must be eliminated and the people forced to do what the government wants. They revolt. Then the system collapses.
2007-10-05 11:32:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It worked on Gilligan's Island.
Socialism can't work in a large society, because there's no incentive to work hard - or at all. "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs" basically means that those who can support those who can not (or will not).
Capitalism works because it rewards people for working harder or smarter. True, it fails those who lack the skills to do anything, which is why we need a "safety net" of social programs (e.g. welfare/workfare) to help those less fortunate.
The important thing is that the standard of living provided to those who don't work not be attractive to those who do - or they'll stop working and start living off the sweat of others.
2007-10-05 11:10:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.
Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).
Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.
Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.
Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents and false government.
2007-10-06 03:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like to use the example of waiting tables and having to split tips to get this across. There will always be someone doing more than their fare share and those who slack off. When the ones who work have to share their fruits with those who do not, resentment occurs and revolution will follow. It's human nature, and if the ones who slack off ever decided to work, they would realize this.
2007-10-05 22:00:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aha! Because what do nearly all socialist countries lack? A thorough capitalist history. According to Karl Marx, they aren't true socialist and communist states because they haven't socially evolved to become ready. They jumped the gun so to speak.
The countries that have a longer capitalist period tend to do better as a socialist nation.
Communism brought on by revolution is doomed to fail.
2007-10-05 11:07:37 · answer #8 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A fact of life :: You can only get one gallon of water, out of a one gallon bucket, before some one puts more water (back) into the bucket.
IF there is no incentive to work (to refill) the bucket, sooner or later, that bucket goes dry, and some one is going to go thirsty.
2007-10-05 11:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you put lipstick on a pig .... it will look like a Clinton and even the Ruskies wouldnt stand for that. They had enough problems without those two!!
2007-10-05 12:04:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It goes without saying that socialism is a philosophical failure.
How many times do we need to keep beating the same old dead horse?
As for poor old fat boy henry the VIII, and his glorification of Sweden, let's remember that Sweden also has the highest suicide rate of any industrialized nation--- oh that's right, we're not supposed to know that right?
2007-10-05 11:13:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋