ManusJustus said:
That is so much bullshit, and I hope you are only trying to bullshit others rather than having successfully bullshitted yourself. You can make the valid argument that capitalism gives people the opportunity to succeed, but in no way does it give people equal opportunities. On the contrary, socialism strives to give people equal opportunity, with programs like socialized education, while capitalism promotes unequal opportunity. Surely, no sane person would make the argument that the son of a million dollar a year salary CEO who goes to private school and will inherit his father's business with he graduates has an equal opportunity with the son of a single mother living in the ghetto who is working at Wal-Mart to pay his way through college. |
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings [wealth]; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries" - Winston Churchill
What he's trying to say is while capitalism doesn't make everyone happy, there is still wealth to be had. Socialism on the other hand yeah everything is equal but the everything is a lot less.
Honestly do you expect inventors to go out an make new products if they won't be able to make money off of it? Do you expect people to go through 12 (or whatever it is) years of medical school to become a doctor so they can make the same money as a janitor? And if people can't make as much money who are you going to tax to pay for these nifty social programs you're promising? I could keep going but you get the point.
