Communism (Pro) vs Capitalism (Con)

hellocapitalism-an economic and political system in which a country's trade andan economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.ustry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com...First, i will negate my opponents definition of capitalism. Capitalism is not slavery, it is in fact based upon free market principles and actually endorses economic freedom. Capitalism is in line with a free market economy where people can freely make decisions on what goods to buy based upon wants and needs and in order to obtain the goods, they must produce something. Now, workers in itself have to work no matter what, whether in a capitalistic or communist society, both must work in order to support the society/themselves. What my opponent fails to realize is that we cannot all live off the system without putting anything in it and expect it to survive. An economy cannot survive by constantly feeding off of others as my opponent implies, we simply cannot create food, supply water, or any other basic needs unless we have humans to obtain these resources, which requires people to work. Capitalism in essence is very efficient, because it is an economic system based upon profit, private enterprises will try to cut cornors where possible. I don't truly understand what my opponent is saying about how capitalism leads to workers getting laid off since a capitalistic society needs to have workers in order to produce goods. The four main key components in capitalism is land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship, slavery is not among them. Slavery is where people are treated as subhuman, mere pieces of property. Capitalism does not endorse this ideology at all, it does utilize humans for economic benefit, but yet again so does communism.In my opponents hypothetic illustration of why capitalism is immoral, he fails to realize that the boss may actually lose money and is risking his financial property based on if there is a demand of the good. The man in return for his hard labor recieves $10, if this truly were slavery, he would recieve no compensation. The boss reaps the reward because the boss is taking risks as well as paying for the rent and other business expenses. I understand that there is a growing inequality in our current system, but with leftist implementations, we are able to allow the worker to have health benefits as well as food, shelter, etc so he can live a happy life yet still have the CEO have a high salary. Corporations need CEO's to govern their corporations, i understand that the pay gap may not be reasonable but many CEO's had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for schooling, training, and other expenses in order to get to that position as well as a bit more hard work/stress than an average mcdonalds worker,The thing about outsourcing is that it is very efficient. A worker in China gets paid significantly less than a worker in America since money in China goes much farther than money in America. This allows for corporations to increase the cost efficiency of their products which means cheaper products for consumers like you. Yes, this is trading off with domestic jobs, but it also creating jobs as you need people to drive the ships needed for outsourcing, drive the trucks to transport the goods, and hire people to stock the shelves with these good. These jobs are not completely gone.Starvation and other capitalistic bads can be solved with much leftist ideology like social security, increasing food stamps, and other social services that solve. Communism has never been tried, and its precurser, socialism has failed innumerable times. Examples like North Korea are a stark reminder of the food shortages and inefficiencies that plague these systems as the workers are not incentived to increase production. Private enterprise is all about maximizing production while minimizing costs, this has created the industrialized nations we see today as industry upgrade new technologies to increase production and lower costs which advances economies. Communism on the other hand endorses the fact that all people should have jobs and does not emphasize increasing productivity by leaving the governance in the hands of the workers. If i was a worker, i would vote for the least ammount of work hours possible while maximizing my benefits. This will eventually lead to the downfall of the economy because i am not producing as much since i don't have a boss telling me that i should work more efficiently. We must have unemployment to maximize production efficiency, otherwise an industry will be unable to fire lazy or innefficient workers.conclusionCapitalism is the most logical economic system as it is the basis of the world's economy. Communism will fail due to it's inefficiencies. Capitalism and communism both use workers to produce goods, and therefore both are technically means of slavery, niether one is much better in terms of slavery. Many of the negative impacts can be solved with leftist policy. I rest my case.