| IIIIITHE1IIIII said: Communism forces people to aid the poor - Equality at the expense of freedom. Capitalism punishes those who choose to aid the poor - Freedom at the expense of equality. Considering that most people use their freedom to look after themselves and spend their money on products such as the latest Apple devices, communism does not seem that bad. |
Capitalism far from punishes those who choose to aid the poor. Given that economics is not a zero-sum game, giving more money to the poor helps society as a whole: looking back at my own city of Pittsburgh, a poor man taking advantage of one of Carnegie's Free Libraries could educate himself and become, say, an accountant, suddenly he's making more money, to buy more consumer goods, for which you need more factories for which you need more Carnegie Steel to build those factories.
Pumping money into the bottom (and not just in investment in the poor in the sense of education and infrastructure. Just giving the poor free money does this too) helps revitalize the entire system when there is slack in the employment market. It's a delicate balance, though. Such antipoverty programs DO become inflationary, but only when there is full or near full employment (but by then, you won't have so many people who need them anyway).
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
