Whats wrong with socialism?

liberationn15
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:24:49 +0000

@Kwasford, Well if you value the payoff from an intellectually-stimulating job as being more valuable than the economic loss from that job, then you are rational (sort of). But the fact of the matter is, most people don’t share that value system. If they did, we’d live in a much better world.

@proletariat2 yes, but even without salaries I don’t see how the system would work. The doctor/janitor analogy would still hold true without salaries. Just replace pay in money with pay in goods/services and the end result is the same (ie the costs of being a doctor outweigh the benifits). I think, though, that the underlying problem here is that I simply have no comprehension of what you mean by “socialism.” How would a society without companies work? How would a society in which people didn’t take cost-benifits into account when making decisions work? I’m not being deliberately thick, but I can’t picture it.