Capitalism is so much better than Socialism
Because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare.
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@meJess Talking points by people who deal in political slogans and soundbites. Not actual knowledge of any of any socialist country or economics.
Because the reality is everything stated here is factually wrong.
The first two comments are random nonsense.
And we have conclusive evidence that even under capitalism the profit motive is not the incentive that drives people to work or incentives for better performance.
Heck more than half of people in North America despise their jobs and are only there because a paycheck is required for survival.
We also have a peer reviewed study from the 80s that still holds that proves that a Marxist socialist system produces better quality of life across all metrics when comparing two countries of equal economic development.
It is why when trying to claim "socialism doesn't work" people compare countries like the USA to Laos or Cuba.
Oh and fun fact. The GDR actually paid more in reparations than west Germany. When you take that into account if both sides started from the same place the economy of the GDR would have been roughly 5 times that of West Germany. West Germany was also spending billions in free money from the USA under the Marshall Plan.
Also "human nature" is a totally made up concept based on Victorian moral values that have zero basis in actual evidence based understandings of how humans operate.
Because the reality is everything stated here is factually wrong.
The first two comments are random nonsense.
And we have conclusive evidence that even under capitalism the profit motive is not the incentive that drives people to work or incentives for better performance.
Heck more than half of people in North America despise their jobs and are only there because a paycheck is required for survival.
We also have a peer reviewed study from the 80s that still holds that proves that a Marxist socialist system produces better quality of life across all metrics when comparing two countries of equal economic development.
It is why when trying to claim "socialism doesn't work" people compare countries like the USA to Laos or Cuba.
Oh and fun fact. The GDR actually paid more in reparations than west Germany. When you take that into account if both sides started from the same place the economy of the GDR would have been roughly 5 times that of West Germany. West Germany was also spending billions in free money from the USA under the Marshall Plan.
Also "human nature" is a totally made up concept based on Victorian moral values that have zero basis in actual evidence based understandings of how humans operate.
meJess · F
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow love to know the source of your comment about the GDR economy.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@meJess I don't have a 40 year old peer reviewed paper to hand right now but I can look it up.
As for reparations that can be found in just about any history book. West Germany didn't really pay reparations. The west seized some German overseas assets (for example the USA seized the American branch of the Agfa photographic company) at the start of the war and called it done.
In East Germany entire factories were dismantled and carted off to the USSR as reparations for Operation Barbarossa.
East Germany also suffered worse from the saturation bombing campaigns like Dresden was basically erased.
The USSR unlike the USA also didn't have an equivalent to the Marshall Plan sending billions of free money to Eastern Germany like the Americans did in West Germany and most of Western Europe post war.
So the two Germanies started from very lopsided starting points. West Germany essentially started half way to the finish line.
As for reparations that can be found in just about any history book. West Germany didn't really pay reparations. The west seized some German overseas assets (for example the USA seized the American branch of the Agfa photographic company) at the start of the war and called it done.
In East Germany entire factories were dismantled and carted off to the USSR as reparations for Operation Barbarossa.
East Germany also suffered worse from the saturation bombing campaigns like Dresden was basically erased.
The USSR unlike the USA also didn't have an equivalent to the Marshall Plan sending billions of free money to Eastern Germany like the Americans did in West Germany and most of Western Europe post war.
So the two Germanies started from very lopsided starting points. West Germany essentially started half way to the finish line.