Why is some socialism bad in your opinion?
We clearly need some socialism to counter-balance extreme capitalsim. Is it right that if you can't afford thousands of dollars for healthcare you have to live out of a card board box under a bridge?
What's wrong with the ultra rich paying their share in taxes commensurate with their income? What's wrong with wealthy corporations paying their share in taxes back to the community. Open up drug rehabilitation centers, etc. But no! Each man for himself! If the poor end up in ghettos that's their problem. Well, that's what lead to the French Revolution and caused the upper class to get mass executed.
Because of a lack of social services and well being for all I can't walk out at night in some areas without the fear of getting robbed. That is much less of an issue if developed nations such as Canada, Europe, etc. Today the highest taxed countries in the world have the highest standard of living.
With extreme capitalism you have less checks and balances, mortgage crisis of 2008 was a clear lesson. No one was ever held accountable for that disaster and greed. Interest groups run the show and don't give a shit about people. Some parts of the USA, the richest nation on earth, looks like sub Saharan Africa. Extreme poverty for all different types of races and people. Then you have the extreme rich that don't give a fuck.
Extreme socialism is bad too. It's best to be centrist.
I agree with you. The extremes are dangerous.
People won’t try hard if there is no incentive, no sticks or carrots. Your country, team, group or family will be stronger if there is incentive to try to be better.
On the other hand, the Capitalist model of a village where the best guy gets the buyers is apt.. in a village setting. It isn’t apt in a giant setting. The winner becomes the best advertiser, the best liar, and the guy who already holds the finance to crush the competition with advertising and propaganda.
I like that, in socialist countries, the playing field for who becomes a doctor comes from anyone who wants to be a doctor. May the fittest survive. In a capitalist country the fittest amongst those rich enough to buy entry can play. You get a smaller population able to compete. This is bad for a country, you don’t get the best.
I believe in Capitalism, but with some safety nets, and a serious drive to find talent hidden in the families who start behind the eight ball. I believe in welfare, but that it should be an actual job. A shitty one, so that anyone would rather have a real job.
That leads into eugenics.....
It’s a tough call, all of this. I agree that extremism on either side, which likely implies a lack of willingness to listen on a casebycase and rather a fallback onto a dogmatic automatic belief system, is the worst way to go.