Communism Vs. Capitalism

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makingmusic476 said:

ItsaMii said:

makingmusic476 said:
They have this billboard that occasionally pops up near the Union on LSU's campus. It's basically there for people to write whatever they want, whatever comes to mind. One day I was walking by and saw that somebody had written, "Cuba has a 0% unemployment rate. Why can't we?" I almost died laughing. Yes, let's all live the wonderful lives of the Cubans.

It is so full of shit. In Cuba, some women sell their bodies for less tha a McDonald`s meal. Is that they idea of a job. I have heard stories that some of the prostitutes take the clients to their homes where they live with their parents and kids (in most communist countries there was 2-4 families per house).

Cuba has a lot of good things compared to the rest of Latin America (near 0% analfabetism, high life expectancy), but they are so poor that in most houses they use old newspapers as toilet paper. A medic makes less in a month than a guy who run errands into a Hotel (tips in dollars are worth a fortune).

Exactly. It's absolutely horrible. Not to mention, if it wasn't for the profit motive, we wouldn't have near the technological advancements that we have today. Cars, computer technology, medicine, etc. all comes from Japan and the US, the two most capitalistic countries in the world.

Remember this Soriku, if it wasn't for capitalism, there'd be no Kingdom Hearts. ;)

 This is only, somewhat true.  For example, medical technology seems to be less advanced since it's been "for profit" well not less advanced but the findings are less.  We're finding less and less cures, and instead finding treatments... because treatments are far more profitable... and it's easy to make the rationale to the public because they can always use the excuse that cures are harder to find, and that treatments will be done sooner and can help the people who have the disease now. (at a tidy profit)  It's hard to argue that when people will spin it that you want current people to die in pain, when in reality you just want to cure things so people don't have to deal with the disease anymore.

Furthermore people still claim their scientific and medical theroes are relvant when they've been proven wrong because otherwise they will lose their funding and money.  Thus wasting resources and their intellect trying to prove scientific theroes that are long defunct because they are afraid they will be out of a job it they don't, which can even lead to intelectual dishonesty in the altering a figures and results.

Scientific and Medical advances were better off in my opinion when they were a combination of state funded and driven by rich hobbists who were into science because they loved it and didn't have to worry about their funding getting pulled and could switch their ideas with their results.  At least in the fields of Medicine and low profit scinces like quantum physics.