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Originally Posted by Letum
Under capitalism you can get a better car than your neighbor if you sit on your arse all day and own a factory.
Your neighbor works hard 12 hours a day on a factory floor, but he still earns far less than you and his car is crap, even tho he actually works far more than you.
Under socialism the only way you can get a better car than your neighbor is if you actually chose to do harder work than he does.
Now everyone owns a percentage of the factory, so no one can earn money by just owning something that makes money for them by exploiting the workers. Instead of the factory exploiting the workers, the workers exploit the factory. The more hours work you do, and the harder the work, the bigger the percentage of the factory you own and so the more money you make.
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I guess you still don't get it. The guy with the factory already risked his butt and all he had on a gamble of trying to make something. He can sit on his butt the rest of his life if he wants, but I have never known a person who created something like this to sit idle. They are out creating something new and wonderful. This one guy has created two things now, and will probably increase things exponentially until he has a major industrial base going for him. Back in the Socialistic / Communistic idea - all your guys still have only 1 factory to the 10+ that the capatalistic guy has.
This is the very reason the US outproduced its rival in every way shape and form. Russia could never hope to hold a candle to the economic might of a private system. There is no incentive.
-S