The Top 1%

[EgoRaptor]

The problem is capitalism. Marx predicted exactly that this would happen. The solution is simple; laissez-faire free-market communism. A system where everyone is given the opportunity & access to everything they need to achieve. All private property is abolished & all have access to the necessary resources. All goods would be directly purchased by & from the worker, who would then manufacture more goods out of these resources & sell them directly. Thus, the middle-man, the owner of industry; the capitalist is eliminated. Instead all become workers. Incentive is also increased, as one would sell their products directly, so wage labor is done away with & people are payed based off of what they produce & sell. Government intervention would be eliminated & the economy completely deregulated. The industrious & creative would be aptly rewarded through the sales they make, while the lazy & unimaginative would be kept thoroughly poor. Inventors & other entrepreneurs would make millions, but everyone would, because of the communization of property, have the opportunity to make millions if they are industrious & creative enough.

If only it wasn't for the fact that communistic countries are always full of poor miserable starving people who hate their own way of life.
That's right ... if communism was such a utopian system, you wouldn't have to force people at gunpoint to accept it.

That is because they had state "communism", as opposed to free communism. They tried to force everybody to be equal.

I admire what they tried to do, but it didn't work. People aren't equal, so naturally the best system is one of inequality, where the lesser people are left to die off in laissez-faire style. I am not a Marxist (although I admire Marx & he is one of my biggest influences). Communism means only the abolition of wage labor & private property. The CCCP tried to abolish market economy. I support laissez-faire markets, but without private property (while maintaining personal property).