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Originally Posted by Mick
No it won’t, socialism does not work, that is not a prediction, it is not doom and gloom, it’s reality, go look at Venezuela for an example as to why it does not work!  |
Venezuela, who looks at Venezuela for anything, the only thing that separates them from other dirt poor South American countries is by lucky chance they found some oil when it was at it's costliest, it accounts for 100% of it's exports iirc, you put all your eggs in one basket like that and it's only ever going to end in disaster. Rather than going and looking at Venezuela I'd rather look at countries closer to home, similar to ourselves, like Scandinavia, there is something of a Nordic myth that they're completely socialist but they're a lot closer to it than not or Portugal that actually has socialist state written into it's constitution, again iirc.
Imo the best way is to take the best bits of both worlds and cobble it together to suit our own needs, ideology benefits no one.
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Originally Posted by denphone
Very true Socialism does not work but one does not need to be Einstein to see unfettered Capitalism does not work neither..
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I dont think there is a country that completely uses capitalism, America only does when trampling on its poor, they love a tartif or isolationist policy, not really letting the market decide is it. In fact I think we are one of the most capitalist countries going, we'll allow anything to be sold to the highest bidder but we keep the nhs, another anathema and where does it get us, we certainly don't seem as happy as our Nordic chums in happiness surveys and the like