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HappySqurriel said: Communism is a horribly broken concept that could never work ... At its core Communism requires the elimination of personal choices and freedoms in economic activities in exchange for having an economy that is centrally planned, and fights against the nature of mankind by eliminating all incentives in the economy. You want to be an artist? Too bad, you get to be a janitor because some central planner arbitrarily decided that you get to be the person who cleans the toilets. You don’t like the bland oat cereal called "Lenin O’s"? Too bad, because that is the only cereal that the central planner thought should be made. In a true free market economy if you see a problem you can fix it and get rewarded because of your contribution ... In a communist system that isn't possible. |
Economic systems, planned or not, have a way to get people to do things they don't want to do as a career. In a totally free market driven system, a person may want to be an artist, but if the market doesn't care he is an artist (say you are in a world like Idiocracy had where the people watch buttocks on the screen for 2 hours), then the market will say, "You need to find something else to do". The difference is that, in a planned economy there is a said "genius" at top that plans out everything. In an unplanned economy, you run into hiring managers and computer systems that tell you whether or not you get hired and you have to guess what the market wants.
Like, golly gee, I would like to make a living creating boardgames. Well, as it is now, you don't make a living creating board games, because the money is too low to do that. To try to pitch the "freedom to choose" as some sort of thing anyone can do, which would fix every ill is to totally misrepresent how markets work.
