Capitalism as an economic system functions better than Socialism.

I would argue that poverty is one of the greatest accelerants for success and also safety net for those who would waste their life. While it is nice to say poverty shouldn't exist the reality is that apple cannot make enough Iphones for the entire world, yet.Furthermore, Capitalism has been one of the single greatest tools for elliminating poverty in all of history. Our current version of capitalism and freedom has brought more people out of poverty than any other system ever designed. http://www.politifact.com...http://www.washingtonexaminer.com...https://www.economist.com...I would also reccomend you take a look at Dr. Thomas Stanley's book "The millionare mind" aggregaites data on decamillions in the united states and attempts to connect the similarities between them. I think you will be amazed to find how they think about money, wealthy and society. 1. The government by definition is a group that should represent the people. They do not have absolute power. I would argue that even the most tyrannical governments do not have absolute power. rather they have whatever power the people will tollerate. That is a good point regarding the life of the impoverished. But think about why do poor people pay parking tickets?* is it because they are poor?* no, in our system they pay those tickets because they park incorrectly and I know people that make a signifcant amount of money and people that have signifcant wealth. Do the wealthy pay parking tickets?* yes, if they break the parking rules. I think the deeper issue you are getting at is the ticket itself is a big deal to a poor person where as a welathy person can get 100 parking tickets and it not really effect them. I agree that is true. This issue is if poor people will pay attention they can avoid a lot of these costs and if they focus on what they want to accomplish they can find a way to make money doing things people will pay for or they will find they need to try to do something else. Does this work all the time?* no. will it help?* yes. If someone is poor and they pay attention and i mean really watch what rich people do and try to figure out why they do it. if they watch out for things that cost money and they really think about why they should or should not spend the little bit of money they have then they will have put themselves in a position where they can get out of poverty. Once they figure out how to lower their expenses now they can really focus on how to make money and there are almost an unlimited number of ways to make money in a capitalist system and there are a huge number of ways that very few people would have ever thought of if not for the freedom under a capitalist system. This is why I don't think communisim works as a system. It centralizes power and control over scarce resources. The people that are in governments, especially communist governments have a tendenacy to want to hold all or most of the iphones for themselves. They do not find creative solutions to problems because they don't have problems. They spend there time trying to stay in power. In a capitalist system many people have power and although 1 may be in control for a little while they are not in control forever because there are to many powerful people. The government does not actually build those bridges. They use the peoples money in both systems to pay workers to build the bridges the difference is the people in an ideal capitalist society will be the people that optimize the bridge building process. They focus on spending the least amount of money to build the best bridge possible so that they can afford to continue building bridges in the future. in the communist society they spend the most amount of money possible because they are guarenteed by the government to be allowed to build bridges forever. They can take as much time and money as they want because the goernment controls the value of money. This has negative effects in society. If any government does this for to long the people that produce goods and services will not accept the money the government has issued. They wont want to trust the money because they don't know if they can exchange the iphones they make to buy more supplies or if the government will use all of the supplies. There is to much uncertain in the market because of the impact of government rules. and often governments don't understand the near infinit number of busienesses well enough to establish rules or prices that make any sense whatsoever. 2. If you believed that laws can prevent anything then why would we need prisions in your utopia? Laws are just words on paper. If the Government forces the 3 million dollar man to pay taxes and they do that to every 3 million dollar men in the country the only people that will have money is the people in the government. If the money is broken up and sprinkled off a helicopter and you dropped 3 million dollars over a city like New York do you realize that over 5 million peopl would not even get 1 dollar. 0 dollars is pretty poor. and if the government just prints more money then the money will be just like owning 100 pairs of shoes. if you own 100 pairs of shoes you own 200 shoes but only have 2 feet you cant wear all the shoes at the same time. So the only shoes that have any value are the ones on your feet the other shoes are not as valuable as the ones on your feet and the next pair is only valuable if the first pair breaks but the chance that you will break 200 shoes in 1 years is almost 0% which means each pair of shoes is even less valuable than the one before it. If the first 2 shoes are worth 3650 days (10 years of wearing shoes) the second shoe is only worth 3,650 days and the following shoes 3650 days, following 3650 and the next 3650 and next 3650 and next 3650 this will take a person with a full grown foot out to age 85 where they will die not having worn 193 of the 200 shoes. which makes 193 pairs of shoes worthless to you as a person. The same thing happens with money because we have seen it happen with other governments like zimbabwe where the government keeps printing money to buy things even though people do no trust the money is worth what it is supposed to be worth. like if you wanted to buy a pizza and i gave 20 dollars to buy pizza this should be enough, so you walk to the counter and you say 1 pizza and they look at you and say oh pizzas now cost 30 dollars so you walk back to me and say pizzas now cost 30 dollars and I give you 10 more so you go back to the counter and say 1 pizza and they now say pizzas cost 40 dollars and so on and so on. 3. Ok I make hamburgers and you make TV's why do you are you making the TV's and what do I get for making hamburgers? hamburgers are smelly and it is hot work in the kitchen and I have to stay clean. I don't like standing up all that much, and I would much rather play video games than make a bunch of different burgers for different people that wont pay me to do it. So instead of making hamburgers I am just going to go get in line and wait for someone else to make me a hamburger that is a lot less work. besides that idea of not wanting to work because I will do all this work and I wont get anything for it, Where am I getting the buns from? who is going to make the buns? why would they bring buns to me? can they bring buns to me? what do they get for the buns? and If i don't have money to give them then why would they give their buns to me? People don't make things just because they wont to. Making things is hard and takes time and energy. and if everything is free why should I work if I can just play all day and get free hamburgers and watch tv? Plumbing is a great example of something people would not do for free but has saved more people than all doctors have saved combined. Furthmore how do you know if someone is really being greedy or needy?* what if the person that took 10 hamburgers was going to give to his family. or even worse how do we know that the government wont just come handcuff someone and say they were being greedy and take them off to jail. There are bad people in this world and if there is no money then the only power is in government and they will join the government to put people in jail and take their things. 4. saying that the goods don't need to be low quality will not prevent them from being low quality. the way we make goods high quality in the capitalist system is we find a way to lower the cost of production so low that we can produce a lot of them for a very low price. sell them to as many people as possible that can pay that price. we want to sell them to as many people as can pay for them but to get people to want to pay for them we have to make them very well. So they wont break, or make people sick because doing that makes people not want to buy them. in a communist society if you put people in jail for all bad things there will be a lot of people in jail and very few people farming and making art or doing whatever. who feeds the people in Jail?* I think you need to look at what assumptions are being made. Assumption 1: Do we live in a perfect world? Assumption 2: will people work hard and disgusting jobs volunterrily for nothing in return?Assumption 3: will this actually result in less poverty?Assumption 4: Do we have an unlimited number of hamburgers so that everyone gets food? Which is better a system: requireing men with guns to threaten to take your life if you don't do what you are supposed to? OR would you be happier choosing to spend less money or finding a way to make more? Note: I put an astriks* by questions that are retorical