RE: Jokes section ?
October 9, 2009 at 6:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2009 at 6:45 am by theVOID.)
(October 9, 2009 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: No fr0d0, she is making perfect sense. Communists / Socialists always say they want to "spread the wealth", yet this puts everyone at an equal level of income even though some are doing more work than others. Such a system can be easily shown as unfair.
In Capitalism, there are very wealthy people, but how is this a bad thing? To continue being wealthy, they must keep generating money. The only way to generate money is to produce their product. The only way to produce their product is to hire workers. If you don't pay your workers enough, they quit and find work at one of your competitors.
The idea of the free market allows *anyone* with an idea to become a billionaire. Combine this with venture capitalism and you can sell a portion of your product / company to a wealthy person, in return for a large sum of money to help develop it. They get shares, you get a business of your own, and if you succeed, both of you become richer. You can then sell your company, use the funds to start a new one all on your own, and perhaps become a venture capitalist yourself.
Capitalism simply doesn't work if the rich don't help others out by paying wages or investing in ideas.
Completely agree Adrian, we need certain barriers in place to make life easier for those unable to work, those looking after children and the retired to make sure they have a great standard of life, but the people who can work and choose not to deserve only the bare-bones state support and should be made to serve the community for their dole, but we should not tilt the system in favor of those who are not earning as much (for whatever reason).
On thing i do think needs to change is the value placed on physical labor, the people in these fields work just as hard, if not harder than the suits yet are not payed appropriately, the mind is not everything when it comes to your pay-packet and we need to acknowledge fully the fact that none of the ambitions of the mind can be fulfilled without the hands.
I'm also for a flat tax, though i will state clearly that it needs to be approached slowly.
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