Capitalism Is The Greatest Economic Ideal

Alright, this should be interesting, thank you for posting it. I am going to attack your point on two different points, those being Communism and Selective Socialism. So let me begin with Communism which I will offer a definition for. COMMUNISM - An economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. Basically government has national control of everything. Through such a system the people work to support their community. They may get some form of a payed wage but it will be a national paid wage. Under this system every person will be guaranteed access to all major industries for no cost and have a set income to spend on luxuries. Benefit you ask? 1. No one is starving on the streets, everyone has access to food. Everyone has access to health care, everyone has a house (you can even make your house pretty if you want). 2. Where as we currently have hundreds of companies in hundreds of different industries all competing against each other wasting million upon millions or even billions of dollars to competition, constantly running each other out of business Communism would stop this needless waste of money. The money then could be used for one of two things. A. Used to develop more efficient technology. B. Given back to the people as a means to purchase luxuries. 3. Efficiency, competition in the global market. How do you compete with an industry that funnels all of its money through one national company? How do you become more efficient than that? What country could possibly compete with the technological advances that would be inherent to such a country? So onto my second ideal: Selective Socialism. This is much like my communism idea only it allows for a mixture of communism and capitalism. This is often referred to as a mixed economy. In such an economy the government nationalizes only key industries. In my ideal it would be only the industries needed for life and an average standard of living. These industries include: Health Care, Transportation, Mail, Housing construction, personal power, and personal utilities industries. So what is our benefit? 1. People once again are not dieing, yes a higher rate of tax is being paid but we don't have people dieing. In fact we have every citizen living at a fine standard of living. 2. Unlike the communism example however we still have many industries left to capitalism which allows for people to "get ahead of the game". Capitalism : People have potential to become rich, but many are very poor. Selective Socialism: People have potential to become rich through un-nationalized industries, but everyone has a fine standard of living to start with. 3. Minor benefits of the communism system in the nationalized industries. So there you have it. I'm going to define two words for my next round just for fun. Government - the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc. Ideal - a conception of something in its perfection. I stand ready for your attacks and look forward to them.