In the Bay Area, people are still blaming everything you just said on capitalism though. I even hear people talk about it out in public. They act like it’s ‘old news’ or settled science that capitalism gives way to communism or that capitalism ‘failed’ because not everyone’s a CEO and most other countries still suck which is somehow our fault. I’ve heard people literally say things likes “if we had socialism, nobody would be unemployed right now,” or “if we had socialized healthcare, everybody would have access to treatment and testing.” How? Through magic?
Let’s just say Bernie got elected and went full Marx on everything. Government dictated all things. Why not. If this happened for real and not just because media hysteria, there would be no incentive for anybody to do anything but panic and steal. Everything would be determined from ‘on high’, by agencies like the WHO and their representatives, who thus far got everything horribly wrong and mismanaged every last bit of it. Now they’d simply be mismanaging everything in sight. People would still not be paid if they were told not to go to work because they’d generate no revenue to cover them. If the government made up fake money to give them then the economy would tank because the dollar would become worthless like so many other currencies. There’d be no massive reserve of wealth to handle a crisis because there’d be no incentive to try hard in almost anything to generate that wealth. Why bother trying hard and putting in long hours if you’re capped at how much you can make anyway? Or if the government decided you couldn’t sell things for more?
There are no shortage of communist nations out there, big and small. They can’t even handle bad weather. China handled this so poorly that they’re welding people’s doors shut to keep them inside and dragging children away from their families if they test positive. They’re routinely known for flat out killing people if it made reasonable sense to those in charge ‘for the greater good’.
Is that what people are hoping for? That we turn into other communist nations? There are exactly zero communist nations anyone’s clamoring to get into, even on a good day. Nobody kills each other to get into communist countries, though there are plenty of people killing each other and risking their lives to get out of those countries.
How many times does communism have to fail before people reconsider it? Capitalism did so well it took a global conspiracy to even hobble it temporarily.
Well put.
In the Bay Area, people are still blaming everything you just said on capitalism though. I even hear people talk about it out in public. They act like it’s ‘old news’ or settled science that capitalism gives way to communism or that capitalism ‘failed’ because not everyone’s a CEO and most other countries still suck which is somehow our fault. I’ve heard people literally say things likes “if we had socialism, nobody would be unemployed right now,” or “if we had socialized healthcare, everybody would have access to treatment and testing.” How? Through magic?
Let’s just say Bernie got elected and went full Marx on everything. Government dictated all things. Why not. If this happened for real and not just because media hysteria, there would be no incentive for anybody to do anything but panic and steal. Everything would be determined from ‘on high’, by agencies like the WHO and their representatives, who thus far got everything horribly wrong and mismanaged every last bit of it. Now they’d simply be mismanaging everything in sight. People would still not be paid if they were told not to go to work because they’d generate no revenue to cover them. If the government made up fake money to give them then the economy would tank because the dollar would become worthless like so many other currencies. There’d be no massive reserve of wealth to handle a crisis because there’d be no incentive to try hard in almost anything to generate that wealth. Why bother trying hard and putting in long hours if you’re capped at how much you can make anyway? Or if the government decided you couldn’t sell things for more?
There are no shortage of communist nations out there, big and small. They can’t even handle bad weather. China handled this so poorly that they’re welding people’s doors shut to keep them inside and dragging children away from their families if they test positive. They’re routinely known for flat out killing people if it made reasonable sense to those in charge ‘for the greater good’.
Is that what people are hoping for? That we turn into other communist nations? There are exactly zero communist nations anyone’s clamoring to get into, even on a good day. Nobody kills each other to get into communist countries, though there are plenty of people killing each other and risking their lives to get out of those countries.
How many times does communism have to fail before people reconsider it? Capitalism did so well it took a global conspiracy to even hobble it temporarily.
Lefties get the bullet.
"No, no, no... those people did it wrong. We won't make mistakes, we know how to do it right. You have to trust us!" - said every leftist, ever.