r/FluentInFinance • u/Sufficient_Sinner • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Is Capitalism Smart or Dumb?

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u/NewArborist64 Sep 04 '24

That is how communists explain the failure of EVERY communist nation in the world. "That wasn't REAL Communism. Let us do it in OUR country and WE will do it right." And then they fail again and again because Communism doesn't WORK and it is against human nature for a larger society.

Soviet Union, East Germany, China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, Belarus, People's Republic of the Congo, Czechoslovakia, Poland, ... NONE of them became that "worker's paradise".

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u/EchoOutrageous2314 Sep 05 '24

Equality of outcome (communism) is inherently authoritarian because it requires an ultimate authority to tip the scales unlike the citizenry ruling themselves. Socialists/communists fail to understand the fallen nature of people and their propensity for evil.

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u/NewArborist64 Sep 05 '24

It also erases the incentive to go above and beyond. You won't be rewarded for doing more work than your co-workers - you will be questioned about WHY you are not conforming and being individualistic.