Everything that is beyond physiological needs of the person is game. All values in this game are something invented and completely subjective. Therefore, they can be changed somehow. However, people of it do not notice, and think, that they are objective. As if, they are a reality that cannot be changed (like the laws of physics).
Marxism, liked practiced in the USSR from 1922-32 was on the way to an egalitarian, just society...
ReplyDeleteThe communists were mistaken: the boon is individually, poverty is result of a choice, and the variety is useful for the society. To force somebody to the boon is idiocy. Equity is in not condemning those people, which have preferred poverty.
ReplyDeleteThe "fair" society of the communists: "each person belongs to all". The person is public property!
ReplyDeleteThe majority of poor would not choose poverty. Capitalism is a system that does not need everyone. Business owners will employ 5 people when 7 are needed, in order to make a profit (to enrich themselves more). The 2 facing poverty and knowing capitalism requires money may turn to crime or the underground economy to survive. Mentally ill people under capitalism are left in the streets because there is no profit in employing people who are slower in their work. Communism needs everyone, and there is enough legitimate work for everyone. The mentally ill can be employed, or if unable to work, will be humanely housed in group settings. People do not need property. Territoriality is a vestige of our reptilian brain. In modern society, property (land) is unnecessary. The vast majority of the Russian people (peasants) supported the Communist Revolution. Life improved in the 1920s until Stalin reversed Marxism. Poverty is useful under capitalism, which is amoral. If irrationalism is your choice, capitalism is the perfect system.
ReplyDeleteIt is necessary to establish minimum conditions for the life of the poor: simple food, simple clothes, some shelter. That is enough. Communists make them work. There is no reason to force: the people - not property. They want to live in poverty - their right, their choice. The authorities are not liable if a person chooses for himself, and the government should not restrict this choice.
ReplyDeleteI think they are out of work because of an excess of humanism in society and the dominance of humanistic bias. For this reason, many activities are impossible.
ReplyDeleteBeware of the many false ladders towards false ends.
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