Praising Communism While Enjoying All the Benefits of Living Under Capitalism

@SunshineGirl dozens of times here alone.

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@SunshineGirl Capitalism, in principle, allows freedom in the market place. However, a free market is not a free for all, all-out grab fest in a battle among the fittest. It is not a no rules barred contest. If this is allowed, then the strong will strangle the weak into submission. This is what American capitalism has become: corruption in government, homeless in the streets, and endemic violent crime.

@sree251 Exactly. We need regulation to protect the most vulnerable and to make sure that banks are providing banking services to everyone who needs them and property developers are providing decent homes that people can afford, rather than always making a priority of maximising returns for their shareholders.

@SW-User Four of the five most recent posts on this group are in a similar vein to the current posting.

@SunshineGirl Regulations? We have tons of regulations. They don't mean a thing. There are a thousand ways to get around regulations. Take our billionaires for instance. They make a great show about giving up all their money back to society by moving their entire cash hoard into Charitable Foundations that are exempt from the normal income tax rate. And they make a big show about not allowing their children from inheriting the money. This is another way to escape a huge chunk of tax. Owning nothing as an individual, these clever sharks will even escape the death tax. They are no longer existing as people but as corporations (i.e. Foundations), and corporations can never die.

What we need are the good guys: people who can be aware of the evil of corruption. And these good guys have to be running the government. I don't know how we can swing this. As is, our government is rotten to the core.

@SunshineGirl Yes, I have actually. I used to work with an old man who was one of those people who truly believed that "communism just hasn't been tried yet, but trust me, it's GREAT!"
I've met lots of people like that.

@sree251 So a bit of ethical responsibility and not always placing the individual before the collective good? We would all benefit from that.

I'm quite enthusiastic about wealthy people keeping their wealth liquid and useful rather than burying it in real estate and family trust funds. But yes, if those billionaires took their taxpaying responsibilities more seriously in the first place there would be less need for their private Charitable Foundations 🙃

@SunshineGirl Ethics is a moral code. It's like the rules of the road for orderly social relationship. I just don't understand why we need to be told and trained to behave in a manner that is beneficial for all. Ask yourself this question: Do you want to live cooperatively with others for the common good?

@sree251 A moral code for corporate bodies and societies. Because not everyone behaves in a way that maximises favourable outcomes for all. And those least able to speak up for themselves repeatedly find themselves at the end of the queue.

In answer to your question, yes. Living for the common good is infinitely more satisfying than living only for oneself.

@SunshineGirl There is a pair of twin girls joined together: two separate heads. They have to live together for the common good. Humanity is conjoined: you and me and the rest of the 8 billion people. We have to live together for the common good but we are not doing it. Endless conflict. Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIPVo4XnLI&t=42s