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Originally Posted by pure_mercury
But how would make a country poorer, if they didn't even have those dimes from the big companies to begin with? You can't make someone poorer by buying goods and labor from them.
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I said KEEPING the countries poor. Ok, say we have a tiny country that has some U.S. owned factory. Their economy is dependent of it. The factory pays its workers the average pay of the country. The tiny country has a functional government that cant do anything about that factory not giving more money, because it would destroy their economy if the factory shipped to the next cheap country. This doesn't make the country stay poor directly, but, those people working in the factory could be working in small businesses that would benefit the country more by strengthening their private sector.
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Originally Posted by Risen
The people have to change quite dramatically before the collective societies and economic structures they create can ever change. Gotta fix the foundation of the house (the people) before you can work on the building a new one (a financial/governing system). You can go around in circles discussing it until the end of time, but not a darn thing will change in the end until that happens.
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So, you say that I am the first one of a new level thinking?
I like the sound of that.
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Originally Posted by IlyaK1986
Communism appeals to human virtue. Everyone is equal, give according to your abilities and you will be given to according to your needs. Everyone contributes and lives a happy lifestyle.
Except for the dumb schmuck that gets things anyway but has no ability. Which makes the smart guy who contributes so much wonder why he's working so hard. He could just be lazy also.
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I am not for communism, for the tenth time!
You know, people, I was hoping to see visions to where the system could be led to, not this status quo reinforcing. I bet most of you guys could easily vision some sci-fi scenarios reaching thousands years from now, yet you are unable to vision some other ways for the system? You do see that capitalism has many stages behind it? Do you really think that this is it? The final and the best form? We are in an interesting time in history, the capitalism is changing and I would like to get your view on how it might become in the next fifty, hundred or thousand years.