AnthonyW86 on 10 December 2013
| Baalzamon said: Not just democracy, economic equality is incompatible with humans as a whole. There will ALWAYS be people who control more money than other people, no matter what system is used. For instance, if every single person made $50,000 per year, you are always going to have people who save their money, and are willing to effectively make money on that money. Even if you prevent that, and make it so every person can only spend $50,000 per year, you still have people who are effectively controlling more money (the government still has an inherent power in controlling where certain money goes). Whenever people talk to me about income inequality, it always makes me think that if you "reset" everybody, after 50 years, you would probably have about 90% of the previously rich people rich once again, and 90% of the super poor people super poor once again. I don't really have much time for the complaints, as I know people who think they are owed everything, yet many of them were those who thought they didn't have to give a rats ass in school. |
I'm afraid you are right, no matter how perfect the system it's only as good as it's weakest part: human nature/error. Not all humans share the same logic, and sadly some think that selfgain is the way to go. If any i'm actually suprised that the current economic system has held up for so long, but like the financial system it only needs one thing. People need to believe and trust in it. It's much like a lottery, people don't mind big winners because they all believe they have a chance to win. To bad this isn't true in real world economics.
