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HackOtaku I posted the 500000th topic Reputation: 81
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 1:54 pm Post subject: Does anyone here actually think socialism would work? |
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Some of my friends are die-hard socialists who think capitalism is inherently evil. Even though I've tried to tell them that socialism/communism sounds good on paper, but doesn't work, they still seem insistent that it's the way of the future. What are the thoughts about it here?
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1929394839292057839194958 Grandmaster Cheater Supreme Reputation: 130
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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It hasn't worked everywhere it's been tried so far and they have been vastly different environments
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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socialism can only work when people get rewarded based on the amount/importance of their work
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HackOtaku I posted the 500000th topic Reputation: 81
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Dark Byte wrote: | socialism can only work when people get rewarded based on the amount/importance of their work | The reward is the joy you feel from knowing you are making something that someone needs, you don't need money or anything.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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HackOtaku wrote: | Dark Byte wrote: | socialism can only work when people get rewarded based on the amount/importance of their work | The reward is the joy you feel from knowing you are making something that someone needs, you don't need money or anything. |
people don't work like that. They will always compare their work to others. And if their work is equally appreciated as the guy who breaks everything he touches, it will severely diminish morale.
Sure, you can sent the guy that's bad at his job to a work/death camp where no one will miss him, but that has proven to not work so well.
for socialism to work people need to get a form of reward. perhaps not money, but perhaps appreciation
e. g give people 'appreciation points' that are visible for everyone, but not transferable (that's the only difference between functional socialism and capitalism)
though i guess a high apreciation level could give those people special benefits like a higher chance for selection to breed. That would likely also stimilate the lower levels to do work harder
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Channel GannoK pffrt Reputation: 129
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Pure socialism does not work. You need a hybrid capitalis/socialist state.
You don't want the government in charge of making couches and cars. You also don't want private corporations regulating what is considered edible and ok to eat and put into our food in super markets etc.
You pick and choose IN A SMART WAY(very hard for republicans) which elements of government work by design and evidence, and implement them, and eliminate the ones that don't work(or properly as intended, such as the DEA).
This concept isn't that complex.
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sbryzl Master Cheater Reputation: 6
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Channel GannoK wrote: | Pure socialism does not work. You need a hybrid capitalis/socialist state. |
This is true. The United States is a combination of capitalism and socialism. Most of what we pay in taxes is due to socialism. It pays for military and police, fire and ems, medicare and medicaid, social security, postal service, roads and bridges, it pays for my trash and a portion of other utilities and lots of things. My tax dollars also go to some other things however like paying for Donald Trump to go golfing. But for the most part I like the socialism that I have and I don't think I would like to live somewhere that I depend on people I couldn't vote for to pay for the services necessary to maintain a civil society.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others).
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Adnihil wrote: | I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others). |
capitalism won the space race, made your phones, and the pencil.
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Channel GannoK wrote: | Adnihil wrote: | I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others). |
capitalism won the space race, made your phones, and the pencil. | yet one could still argue that we're no better than before those things, that society hasn't really progressed in any way, and that making a bunch of babies and keeping them alive and raising the total human population doesn't actually account for us being "successful"
as for my own opinion: there is nothing inherently evil about Capitalism, and all your qualms are ethical issues, not economic/political. And to add to that, most peoples issues nowadays are about the 1% who have ridiculous amounts of money, which could be fixed while still incentivizing the smarter people to rise to the top.
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Adnihil wrote: | I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others). |
You think capitalism causes poverty? It was the widespread adoption of capitalism that has brought the world's poverty level down dramatically. Before capitalism, only the aristrocrats of many countries got to live out of poverty. The serfs were held on tight chains and personal property was restricted. The vast majority of people were poor and no middle class really existed. It was the advent of capitalism that brought up the rise of the middle class in the first place. Without free enterprise and the rights to property, no middle class could possibly have formed.
Capitalism is what allowed the USA to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War by bankrupting the Soviets. Their economic structure couldn't handle the pressure of the Cold War's arms race and the space race, which acted as the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Regime. Without Capitalism, the USA wouldn't have been able to catapult to power after the second world war to begin with. Free enterprise and American exceptionalism were intimately linked to the economic explosion that followed WWII.
Yes capitalism has it's flaws. Consumerism leads towards the degeneration of cultural values at a rapid pace if left unchecked, and consumerism is championed by capitalism. That's the most glaring flaw of capitalism. It's knack at distributing resources towards the most amount of people, compared to pretty much any other economic structure, is in no way a flaw.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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You need the right conditions and the right people for it to work.
It never worked in Hungary but it actually works very well in Finland!
Go figure!
Channel GannoK wrote: | capitalism won the space race, made your phones, and the pencil. |
Haha, exactly what a capitalist would say.
Unfortunately, only the first one of those is true, lol
Though to be honest, I am beginning to doubt that, too.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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Csimbi wrote: | You need the right conditions and the right people for it to work.
It never worked in Hungary but it actually works very well in Finland!
Go figure!
Channel GannoK wrote: | capitalism won the space race, made your phones, and the pencil. |
Haha, exactly what a capitalist would say.
Unfortunately, only the first one of those is true, lol
Though to be honest, I am beginning to doubt that, too. |
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Finland isn't a socialist country. The means of production are all owned by the people. Property rights are enforced and free enterprise is allowed. Finland is actually a capitalist welfare state, if you dig deeper into the actual structure of Finland. While the Nordic systems of the early 2000s were substantially closer to socialism than anything else in the West, they were never actually socialist as a core component of socialism is state seizure of the means of production. In Finland there is still social mobility and the ability to produce value through labor. In a socialist country those things disappear from the common man, and instead are funneled into the hands of the elite that control that nation. Just look to Venezuela today. A country that was once touted as the shining light of the socialist dream. What is it today?
Everyone not absorbed by the socialist pipe dream knew what would inevitably happen to Venezuela, and I've personally been saying for years that this would happen. As soon as the price of oil took a hit, Venezuela crumbled. They were entirely propped up by the oil industry, and even that was bleeding away from them due to the nationalization of the industry. Now Maduro is enforcing laws that prevent people from selling certain kinds of bread because of the rampant starvation and riots happening due to the poverty their socialist waste has caused. With hindsight the travesty of Venezuela becomes clear to everyone, except those still blinded by the promise of free shit and happy feelings for all.
Everywhere "true socialism" goes, poverty and death follows.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Alt wrote: | Adnihil wrote: | I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others). |
You think capitalism causes poverty? It was the widespread adoption of capitalism that has brought the world's poverty level down dramatically. Before capitalism, only the aristrocrats of many countries got to live out of poverty. The serfs were held on tight chains and personal property was restricted. The vast majority of people were poor and no middle class really existed. It was the advent of capitalism that brought up the rise of the middle class in the first place. Without free enterprise and the rights to property, no middle class could possibly have formed.
Capitalism is what allowed the USA to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War by bankrupting the Soviets. Their economic structure couldn't handle the pressure of the Cold War's arms race and the space race, which acted as the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Regime. Without Capitalism, the USA wouldn't have been able to catapult to power after the second world war to begin with. Free enterprise and American exceptionalism were intimately linked to the economic explosion that followed WWII. | That's not very relevant though, is it? Just because it was worse before, or because it could be worse, doesn't mean it's good now.
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