[Catfish]

^ @Skybird: What you write is not so far away of what i wrote, although you chose your own or Rand's ideas of what communism is.

It is just human nature that socialism and communism have never worked, and always led to dictatorship, poverty and misery. Which is why what we see is not the theoretical part, but what it always turns out to be in practice. The theoretical part obviously does not work, in reality.
We are too egoistic, or too individual – depends on point of view.


However the theoretical part of capitalism regarding what Mises and Ayn Rand wrote is wrong as well. Theoretical capitalism with lots of small companies competing against each other and thus low prices for the people sounds good, but does not work in the long run. Because companies will always try to merge to become bigger, and have more power.

If you let them do what they want, you have monopolies, cheap printed money without backing it up, globalisation with the locusts and the side effects.

If you have some governmental control about forbidding them to merge and become monopolies, it is not free capitalism anymore. But it also is not communism.
It is pretty much what we have.