Pick Your Poison

1984 or Hasbro’s Monopoly  

Capitalism, this is how I see capitalism. So capitalism makes its money from the people, because the people are consumers. And the more people consume the bigger the capitalists gets and the poorer the consumer gets.  And the way our society works it works out perfect for the capitalist. Society tells us we need more and the consumer listens and the capitalist gets richer. I would be more ok with people getting filthy rich if they would just share their wealth. If they used that money to start charities and organizations to help the poor we wouldn’t need government controlled health care, food stamps or college, because it all be paid for by filthy rich corporations.  Republicans would be happy because the governments not using their tax money to help the poor and the democrats would be happy because the poor are getting the help they need.   So capitalism without greed would be great. It would still give people a chance to build a flourishing business without government involvement.  Another thing I don’t like is the government bailing out big business. If the business fails that has nothing to do with the government.

                Socialism is kind of in between capitalism and communism. The government has a hand in almost every aspect of business. Production of goods is based solely on the needs of the people.  It’s a moderate form of communism. Socialism benefits the lower and middle classes, because of things like free health care and free school. But trying to be an entrupuneur  really sucks. The government makes it really hard for you to get rich, because your business is technically the peoples. Socialism gets in the way of the capitalistic freedom of building up your own business. With socialism there would be no Bill Gates, Carnegie, Rockefeller, or Sanford. It crushes the dream of every making it big in business. One plus is that socialism does not allow private monopoly, because the government is the monopoly. So that way one corporation cannot hold all the money and power.

                Just like were told we are democratic we are told we are capitalists but I don’t believe that either. Business are taxed, bailed out, and regulated by the government so it is not true capitalism.  If anything it’s more socialist. So I don’t agree with either form. I’d agree to a hybrid, But not Americas form. And a socialist economy would not work in America unless there was total democratic control and the taxed the rich. But if one party was in control then it wouldn’t be fair. So yeah, confusing stuff, really messes with your head.