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Old 21st-February-2008, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by cbacba View Post
Imagine free cars that cost society a man year each to produce that contains 10 valuable screws worth 1$ each or contains $20 worth of aluminum and copper. One merely has to start getting free cars and extract that to become rich. All that labor is wasted as well as the other materials. Perhaps one has to buy those cars to scrap from others because they are rationed. Net result, utopias don't exist and cannot exist in this form. Then again, perhaps the western capitalist systems are utopian for those in the socialist workers paradise where cost doesn't matter because you starve to death in total poverty.
This is utter, total nonsensical thinking. There are more people starving in America than in many places on earth. And there you go again, everything has a price. Well, what's the price of pain, what's the price of love, what's the price of friendship and cooperation.
All you see is man competing and struggling against other men. Every man for himself. Well, that's not how we survived these last few thousand years. And I don't see a lot of starvation in South America, where most of the governments are democratic socialist for the most part.
Furthermore, the only colors you seem to see are black and white. It's either this or that, capitalist or socialist, wealth or poverty. Well, that's not how nature works. Nature works by balance, not platitudes.

You are merely painting a picture of your own destruction.
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