Topic: why socialism? - page 11. (Read 7721 times)

Well if Venezuela screwed up socialism it must be bad...#Sarcasm. Dude come to Canada an tell me its not working out.

Look the thing is with capitalism, Communism or Socialism, they are just systems to be followed and if your a greedy dick you can always screw them up.

Communism sounds great in theory but it was screwed up by greedy dicks, so does that make it a bad system or does that mean greedy dicks can ruin it?

Capitalism was working fine but currently its being ruined by greedy dicks

The lesson isn't that any system is bad the lesson is don't be a greedy dick and everything will be fine.

In Canada, our dollar is doing fine, our middle class is doing fine our health care is solid and even reoccurring cancers of the worst kind get treated over and over with out you ever being turned away, we are a perfect example of how when properly applied taxes can be a wonderful thing!

I would gladly pay taxes on my BTC if it went to a communal cause the was proven to benefit all BTC holders, your problem is that you are blaming the systems instead of blaming the greedy, like you should.

No idea about socialism and according to google it is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Maybe because they still believed that it is the key or maybe a way to atleast alleviate everyone from poverty.  If the production, distribution, and exchange is owned by the people many will benefits.  No more hunger.  Everyone will have a comfortable life.  There would be equality.  And speaking of equality, that is not a good thing for the greedy people.  People who wants fame.  People who wants all the richness of the earth.  As long as there are people like this, this would not take effect.  Thus, it will not work. 

How much of your Bitcoin are your ready to forfeit in taxes each years (wealth tax) and how much of your new Bitcoin (income tax) and how much at each purchase (vat)? How much do you consider fair?

Socialism always end up Venezuelan... There is no other option because greed isn't the product of capitalism bit of the human nature and particularly women hypergamie...

not true at all, no one in Canada has anythign stolen by our very socialist govt and the majority of Government programs benefit all Canadians. Not a single Canadian is against our universally free health care, you never hear us complain about or socialized programs, we only take advantage of them and you never hear us complain that other people decided on our money because its done through taxes wich Americans already have, in Canada we have a bigger middle class and a better quality of life for our worst off.

remember a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Plus , you spend the money anyways
instead of taxes that cover you schoolign and health care, you pay through the nose for school and health care.

You end up paying anyways

Socialism: taking a share of YOUR Bitcoin to spend it on something not decided by you. Do you agree to it, or coercion would be necessary?

Canada is socialism,  therefor socialism works perfectly in a current situation and your argument is completely invalid.

You Americans get religious about your words and act like doing something socialist is going make you wear shitty old wool clothes and force you to march in an imperialistic army.
the only thing socialism means is programs that you pay tax for that benefit the entire population such as hospitals , Fire Departments , Universities and Police Stations.
Why on earth wouldn't you want that?

Because it is an easy form of populism.  In the end they are just trying to get votes. Looking back in history we see that socialism is not working. Taking private ownership away and forcing everybody to be the same, makes people lazy. It is attractive to get money from the rich people.

Hey BADecker  do you get off quoting me, stop it or report

Fuck Socialism and Bernies people, CAPITALISM AND TRUMP FOR LIFE!

Don't let the Democrats fool you with there bullshit, they want the US to be a Euro-Socialist country.

Get married and hand all your money, time, and property over to your spouse.

Capitalists will make you slaves, they have done.

SocialistS gave you better wages, better standards of health care (UK) without that you would still be going to the boss man cap in hand begging for a raise in wages....really low wages these days all down due to Capitalists and corps

Bailing out the bankers really gets on my nerves, using tax payers money, even when banks get fined they get tax breaks on that.

Troll much?

America is the best example we have of "Capitalism"... Capitalism inevitably leads to this situation... it is inevitable

Capitalism is based upon greed... the profit motive... capitalism is corporatism... there is no difference

You can label things however you want, but I am talking about the situation in America, as I assume everyone is...



America is also heavily Socialist... We have the fire department, police department, etc... you don't have to pay the fireman up-front to spray water on your burning house... right?

America has "social security", which is a pure socialist policy (and the most popular policy in American history)

America is a mixed-bag of many things



Part of the problem is the media... you have asshats like Bill O'Reily saying shit like, "Socialist Bernie wants to raise your taxes"... which is not true at all... he wants to raise BILL O'REILY'S taxes!... raising taxes on people making over $1,000,000/year is not "your taxes"... but people don't bother to research, they just assume Bill isn't lying to their face (spoiler: he is)


The tax situation in America is because of the rich Oligarchy... rich people pay 5-10% in taxes, and middle-class pays 30-40%+ in taxes (that's more than triple, but who is counting?)... that's Capitalism in a nutshell... rich get richer, poor get taxed to fuck

You don't know the difference between capitalism and corporatism. Don't feel bad, it's a common error.

Because you have been lied to for years... everyone has been lied to by the establishment...

Socialism is a good thing... it is the balance for Capitalism

Capitalism means letting the rich run the country and write all the laws to benefit themselves...

You don't want pure Capitalism... it's basically anarchy where the rich run everything... an Oligarchy of corporations

You do not want an Oligarchy where corporations write the laws (which is currently how America works)... this is bad news... a disaster in the making



One example... Martin Shkreli:
Capitalist greed let him raise the price of HIV meds from $13 to $750/pill... this could not happen with socialist healthcare... there is no profit, or greed...




But, as I said... you have been lied to... you think Capitalism is a good thing, when it is self-destructive... nobody ever told you the truth... you have to do your own research

Capitalism = rich people win (get a job and work for some rich asshole, so he gets richer while you get poorer)
Socialism = everyone is equal (in theory)

I explained it in this topic and a blog post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hillary-clinton-the-coming-forced-socialism-1580546
http://www.narrowpathnetwork.com/debt/hillary-clinton-the-coming-forced-socialism/

it's simply a way to gain more power.

Why is  the left pushing the idea of socialism/comunism so much even tho it showed that it doesn't work many times in the past?