Ha wow an economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class....=> A Simple Socialism Analogy
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Ha wow an economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class....=> A Simple Socialism Analogy |
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Wow, and it almost sounds like a true story.
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp Here's a simple Capitalist story Students at a small university argued that only capitalism worked so a teacher tried a little experiment. He gave everyone a paper to write on genetic mutations throughout nature. Students frantically looked through their biology 101 texts and found very little information. They decided to go online but realized quickly that'd be cheating because using the net encouraged socialism because what is the net but a collective effort of resourcing shared sources. So another kid had a bright idea. He decided to go to the library. Unfortunately he couldn't do that either because the library shared resources as well at absolutely no cost. Pure socialism again. The rich kids in the class frantically called daddy and checks soon arrived. They went to the book store and bought all the sources they needed. The poor kids, Realizing that he couldn't afford to buy all the source material that they needed to write their papers turned to God and came to the conclusion that their were no random genetic mutations in nature. They occurred in accordance to God's will. Those with money made an A. Those without made F's (they were however encouraged to continue going to church, obey God's will for them, and get a job at McDonalds)
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wcvet |
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the capitalism story does not ring true.
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gshabo |
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Of course not Vet. Of course not. What part of it does not ring true for you?
The part that Libraries are based upon collective lending, or the part that the internet is a shared source of material? Truthfully, Socialism is flawed. Truthfully, Capitalism is flawed. And that is why the United States is neither a Capitalist or a Socialist country. We are a country that utilizes traits of both institution. Always have.
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wcvet |
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The collective lending of the library does not take away from one to give to another. It duplicates resources to better distribute them but they are not scarce
resouces. The internet also does not distribute scarce resources. that is why it does not ring true. Capitalism is about the allocation of scarce resources
along a supply and demand curce. with the resources you mention there is no scarcity .
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gshabo |
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The collective lending of the library does not take away from one to give to another
Of course it does Vet. How do you think those books got there? The book Fairy? Libraries are in large part funded by your tax money!
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but the resource is not used up. the book is able to be returned and used by another. that is why the analogy does not work for capitalism. the law of supply
and demand does not work if the supply is constant. Increased demand for the book does not increase the number of books in the library nor the costs to check
the book out.
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gshabo |
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but the resource is not used up. the book is able to be returned and used by another. that is why the analogy does not work for capitalism. the law of
supply and demand does not work if the supply is constant. Increased demand for the book does not increase the number of books in the library nor the costs to
check the book out.
Until said book needs to be replaced. $ spent for librariarns. $ spent to hire people rehelf books as they are checked out at higher volumns. $ spent to get extra copies of high demand books. $ spent to replace destroyed or worn out books. So yes, increased demand for books does lead to increased tax payer cost. But on a basic note your definition of socialism is not accurate: Socialism is not defined by the sharing of scarce resources. It's the sharing of responsibility, of all resources, and just collective sharing in general. From Columbia Encyclopedia: "NOUN: 1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. Noticed that scarcity of resources doesn't define socialism? My metaphor is as logical and entertaining as the original post. But both are simplified, silly little analogies designed to get a quick reaction from people. These chain mails are aplenty because people rarely put any thought to them when they read them. They simply get a gut reaction something to the effect of "f#ck yeah" and the send them on to everyone in their address book. .
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