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Soleron on 06 June 2009
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SciFiBoy said:
kowenicki said:
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im a Liberal and  i like elements of Socialism, im not a communist

i doubt you are worse off than someone on the average wage if you are a succsesfull bussinesman, so you gain from it, a better lifestyle than most have, also, what makes you think a bussinessman deserves more money than say a nurse or a bin man, you probably all work just as hard as each other at your respective careers?

The free market is the best tool we have ever designed for improving the human condition. The only way it can work is if political control and intervention in the market is kept to a minimum. The market values businessmen higher than binmen (actually nurses are paid rather more than some businessmen). Therefore they earn more. They may be working just as "hard", but the businessman/engineer/scientist is either more intelligent or worked harder to advance himself.

I'm good at science and will have a career in it. It doesn't pay well, but it pays more than a binman. Where is the incentive for me to put in the extra work and time to study to be a scientist if being a binman pays just as well? The vast majority of binmen can't be scientists but the reverse is not true.