Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read
- Necessities are the very best thing that capitalism provides for. In socialism, everyone may have a “right” to everything, but the “thing” itself becomes either scarce or non-existent. From the USSR to Venezuela its the same story: everyone has a right to “free” food, “free” heathcare, etc. It’s just that said food or healthcare doesn’t exist. And that’s my whole point: under a free market there are MORE and BETTER schools in response to the market. And the poor schools go out of business (good riddance!)
- The U.S. has the highest social mobility in the world. The rich have advantages, but that’s true in every country. But in the US, you can leave “the poor” and enter “the rich”. There is always going to be a top 5% and a bottom 5%. But the people occupying those slots CHANGE. I grew up fairly poor, but my kids are medium and my grandchildren may well become rich. There is still a “poorest 5%”, but I’m not in it. One result of socialism is that it stops people from moving. People who are already rich are quite happy with that.
- The vast majority of people in the US have money enough for their priorities. Some people choose fancier cars/houses/possessions, while others choose travel, or education or investing. Good (private) schools are not out of the financial range of most Americans if that is their priority. We were relatively poor, but we chose some public schools, some private schools, and some home schooling for our kids. In the US, we had a CHOICE. In socialism, we have no choice. We either do what the government says, or they point a gun at us and take our kids from us. Not cool.
- Capitalism will always be the closest to fair that exists. Obviously the rich have more and better choices than the poor. That has always been true everywhere on earth. But while socialism makes the false promise that the government is going to make life fair, the supposed fairness has never happened anywhere. And it cannot happen, because people are corruptible, and the government has to be run by people. The more power and control the government has, the more there will be misuse of that power by corrupt people. At least under capitalism the rich can’t use government to force their way on the poor people, and under capitalism anyone has a shot at leaving the poor and becoming one of the rich.