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| | Post New Topic | | Socialism | Views: 68 | | Jun 09, 2009 10:27 pm | | Socialism | # | 
Denis Gibbon | | Years ago I remember hearing Richard De Voss (Amway Vice President) defining socialism. He said that the essential difference between capitalism and socialism was in the ownership of the tools of production. In socialism, the tools of production are owned by the state, whereas in capitalism they are owned by the entrepreneurs among the people.
In human nature, people never exercise the same degree of care in the use of items which they do not own personally. Nor do they live and work at the heightened frequency of awareness and progressive positivity that is so characteristic of successful entrepreneurs. Moreover, people are not motivated by receiving rewards for things they have not really earned. Many of them take as much as they can for granted without making a single worthwhile contribution to the actual enterprise that is supporting them.
Socialism of the kind I have described has no worthwhile future. It provides a climate for laziness, lawlessness and pleasure-seeking at the expense of the weak and vulnerable.
It is a recipe for degradation of the worse kind. Material comforts and an easy life are not able to provide people with happiness, in fact they are the cause of ultimate untold misery and poverty.
On the other hand, capitalism benefits the rich and exploits the poor. Employees of corporations will soon experience big changes in their working conditions. The traditional system of salaries and wages is about to be changed. All employee earnings will be performance-based, and inadequate performance will mean instant dismissal. Corporations can no longer carry dead weight and pay appearance money. The large number of availabe, willing and qualified workers will enable corporations to be very selective about who they employ.
As corporations get bigger and become more powerful, even more powerful than governments in some cases, they will lobby for the creation of Laws which will make it extremely difficult for people to commence a small business. This is already happening. In Medicine for example the regulatory requirments of Medical Practice make it economically prohibitive for a Doctor to practise in a portion of his family home. They want as much of the market as they can get. This makes Professional Network Marketing on the internet a very viable and efficient alternative to being a corparate slave.
It takes from 2 to 5 uears to gain the necessary knowledge, personal development and skills which are essential to do this kind of online business professionally and successfully. Ultimately, it is very rewarding, but it does require a lot of work and self-discipline, and quite frankly, only a relatively small number of people succeed.
Finally, there is another system which is capitalistic, but offers its participants a share in the ownership of the corporation. This is the co-operative. In my opinion, this is the best choice, wether it be an online business or an offline business. An online co-operative operating 24/7 in a global market place with excellently chosen products with all of its owners working in their home offices or even while travelling, is the closest thing I could get to a utopian lifestyle.
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Private Reply to Denis Gibbon | | Jun 10, 2009 7:24 pm | | re: Socialism | # | 
Ken Hilving | | Something I have always wondered about - does the system make people act as they do or do the people make the system work as it does (or doesn't)?
If the first, all we need is the correct system to achieve a better world. If the second, then the system is incidental to the results, which can only come from the actions of individuals.
Having lived and worked under several different systems, I think it is people who make a system succeed or fail.
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