If Communism/Extreme Socialism took over the world.....

[JMapleton]

There are two ways to tackle this.Either wall ourselves up for 20 years until the standard of living in those countries are high enough that we're somewhat competitive with them, or lower our standard of living to compete with them.

That will happen sooner rather than later when the yuan is floated and Chinese goods are no longer extremely cheap.

 

[Steeplerot]

Don't respond to me unless you're willing to put up an argument.

I don't need another political troll wasting my time.

Why bother, you make a thread about socialism and your biggest input is "I guess the communist dream is" about Marxist theory?

You are completely missing the point and have some talk radio idea of Socialism.

The only thing growing about Socialism is more spreading of ignorance about it, as usual.

 

[Craig234]

This thread seems utterly pointless to me - someone uninformed trolling about the couple buzzworrd he has heard and fixated about.

It's like the old men at the elephant thing - the OP is stuck at the elephant's hoof and so post about the economy - the elephant - only by talking about the hoog/communism.

He could use IMO a lot broader learning what the economic options are. He sounds like the type who looks at any specific policy and just asks 'it this socialist?'

There's an ugly little truth that a lot of the wealth enjoyed by some comes from - with or without their understanding it - from the impoverishment of others, whether they be slaves, or third world masses, or underpaid illegal immigrants, or just low paid people. Almost no economic discussion asks the important question, how do we get everyone in the world to a decent economic standard - not by communism, which indeed is generally pretty terrible IMO.

Sometimes, a 'socialist' policy can be great, and others bad. Not 5% of the discussions pay any attention to the issue, they just rant against socialism and such.

 

[ProfJohn]

Are you certain you wouldn't be content living in the middle class utopia you seem to be projecting? Would you really be that unhappy if you had, say, an 1800 ft house and one car, free health care, few job/career stresses, no debt, and only had to work 40 hours/week with 1 month of vacation time each year?

Sounds a lot like Greece and Spain and a bunch of other European countries that are on the verge of going broke and would be falling apart if it weren't for other countries coming to their rescue.