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Politics : How will the swing towards socialism affect you? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (2)	1/26/2010 9:16:01 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8

Capitalism could not work if it was based solely on competition, the result of attempting that would be a literal dog eat dog existence where the outcome would not be a capital gain for the system. Socialism, as we've seen, does not work absent the drive to compete and produce beyond individual subsistence. Which is why I recommended the general guideline of 80/20 Competition/cooperation balance for a healthy system. "Corporate greed and selfishness tends to manifest itself in its most harmful way through corporations recruting government to its own end, not through capitalism." Greed and corruption is human and humans driven by it will use any avenue including manipulation of the government when the opportunity is available.