Exploding the Myths of Socialism Vs Capitalism
PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY DON’T EARN IT.
THEY CATCH IT WHEN IT FALLS FROM THE SKY.
THAT’S WHY IT’S OKAY FOR BIG GOVERNMENT TO TAKE IT FROM THEM.
Money has its myths. So do the “poor”.
One such myth in recent years is the “nobility of the poor”. Forty years ago, Americans would have scoffed that there was anything ‘noble’ about poverty. Many poor people worked very hard to escape their situation.
They did not want to be poor and saw nothing ‘noble’ about their plight.
Then came LBJ’s The Great Society and the Myth of the Noble Poor, Victims of the Evil Rich. In this scenario, the poor were victims which neither hard work or ingenuity could help. They floated like dust in the wind–just waiting for the only thing that could alter their situation–the benevolent, heavy hand of Big Government.
Some other myths are explored in The Makers of Money:
* Socialists love to posture as enemies of the rich, but in truth, the upper class is not usually a big obstacle to their plans. They are happy to cooperate willingly, if they see advantages to gaining the favor of a command economy.
* Collectivists sell their politics with a promise of “equality,” generally understood by their audience as a promise to redistribute the wealth of the rich to improve the lives of the poor… but this is a lie. The upper class in a communist, fascist, or socialist government is fantastically wealthy. Most of the “redistribution” comes at the expense of the middle class, which shrinks as the lower class grows.
* It has been said that if you gathered all the money in America into a single pot, then divided it evenly between every citizen, in a few years the same people would be rich and poor again. No matter how limited or activist the government might be, the same people tend to end up at the top.
This last puts the lie to the thought that the making of money is a result of the “lottery theory”. People who are rich generally just happen to luck out and be standing in the right place when it falls out of the sky. This last myth is one that is promoted by socialists.
If people who have earned money didn’t work for it, then it’s AOK for Big Government to steal it from them and give it to someone else.
There’s a lot more at the link and it’s woven together into a coherent whole–courtesy of Hot Air’s Dr. Zero.
Check it out!
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Socialists in general (I should know, I’m one of them) do believe that wealth “falls out of the sky”. That is ridiculous. The capitalist class has, ever since it came into existence, increased its capital reserves by exploiting the working class. The US government has always assisted in this process of “trickle up” from those whose labor creates wealth to those at the top, the exploiting class. Sometimes those at the top did come from a “rags to riches” type story. However, quintessential examples such as Rockefeller and Carnegie exemplify the cruel, often illegal, and armed processes that gained them their wealth. Then, they used this wealth to essentially purchase control over the government, and then use their huge capital reserves to further unbalance the playing field. American labor history has been chock full of the working classes fighting their oppressors, and then being brutally repressed. Not to mention the huge amounts of wealth created by slaves in the early years of the “republic,” and further institutionalized racism and sexism that has by no means been completely eradicated. Most of the rich were born rich. They never had to earn their vast wealth that is used to gain more wealth, so the argument that they woulod rise to the top if they started at the bottom, and were told to go out and find a job, especially as they have no experience doing real work, is ridiculous. The real myths are those perpetuated by the likes of Horatio Alger. Read some Marx and then lets talk.
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Karl,
I’d much rather be the judge of whether or not I’m exploited and make my choices than have someone make them for me.
I don’t give a flying F**k about how much a Rockefeller or a Carnegie or a Marx made or makes. I’m concerned about how much I make. No amount of envy or dragging someone down will make me feel better. I will feel worse when I don’t have the freedom to improve my situation. Capitalism does that, socialism does not.
I’ll pick my own winners and losers, including myself. You are free to pick your’s. When You start picking mine, we’re going to have a discussion about that–probably heated. That discussion is going on right now.
Unsurprisingly, the discussions are heated between regular people (taxpayers) and Marxists who reside in the government. Expect the heat level to rise until the time that I might rise or fail again without some SOB telling me he’s helping me by limiting my choices–for my own good.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
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Mondo,
You are right on.
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