Posted on 05/23/2019 11:17:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A primary requirement of true science is the ability to replicate the experiment and get the same results. The economic “experiment” has been carried out hundreds of times and real-world results across the globe and time show that freedom and limited government provide far superior results for all -- rich, poor and in-between.
The socialist experiments generate consistent results; a yawning gap between the supposed goals and the end results and ultimately the collapse of the economic system.
There are reality-based reasons for this. The many will always be smarter than the few. This is called swarm intelligence and perhaps counterintuitively a key ingredient is no one is in charge. Just like a honeybee hive, society functions fine with no management at all, just countless interactions between individual bees with each following simple rules of thumb.
A system such as this is called self-organizing. Life itself is self-organizing. Capitalism, free people freely interacting with other free people, also operates on swarm intelligence and is likewise self-organizing.
Just like the honeybee we’ve unknowingly used swarm intelligence to develop knowledge and create wealth that allows us to collectively live like none before. The beauty of swarm intelligence and self-organizing systems is that even for complex systems like human life and survival, behavior may be coordinated by relatively simple interactions.
But socialism in is direct conflict with this entire reality-based framework. It can’t work because its fundamental premises are in conflict with reality. There is no politics at play here, just a willful or naive attempt to wish for something which can’t be.
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Unfortunately, this is not taught in K-12 History classes.
Neither is history.
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Nice.
I really doubt our politicians or people have any idea what socialism is, and even less idea of how to actually implement such a thing.
It’s all just talk on the surface, allowing zealots and hacks to do awful things behind the scenes.
2 MINUTE VIDEO
4+ of the 10 people you meet every day want to believe that’s a good idea.
Note that I wrote “believe” and not “think” as if they knew the history of Marxist Socialism and DID THINK, they’d run screaming from the idea.
https://www.brighteon.com/6039981365001
Stalin murdered over 60 MILLION of HIS countrymen. His history ignorant Marxist brothers and sisters want to give it another SHOT...literally...here in what’s left of America!
Capitalism works because all free people have the same goal; to live better. And free people are willing to work toward that goal.
But socialism in is direct conflict with this entire reality-based framework. It can’t work because its fundamental premises are in conflict with reality. There is no politics at play here, just a willful or naive attempt to wish for something which can’t be.
I somewhat disagree. Socialist (the common man socialist) still have that basic goal to live better. However they want to live better the easy way; at someone else’s expense.
The system fails because the Socialist at the top try to satisfy the people at the bottom. However, the number of people at the bottom grow while the number of wealthy at the top dwindle and the system collapses. “Eventually you run out of other peoples money”. (Thatcher)
and socialism is parasitism
the leaders are looters and the masses are moochers
they both survive by taking from the producers
No Democrat over the age of 25 actually thinks that socialism/communism works.
The young Democrats think that they just need to use this “system” of socialism and the world will be perfect. Everyone will be happy.
Then, they get into the real world and find out that people are not just like them. Some people are lazy. Some people are greedy. Some people are criminals. Some people are psychopaths.
This causes the young Democrat to suffer a breakdown. The world isn’t like he/she thought. The perfect world is impossible.
How do they react to it?
Dangerous sports.....drugs.....destructive sexual behavior.....
Anything to take their minds off of their realization of the real world.
And some of them become cutthroats.
“OK. The world can’t be perfect, but I’ll take care of myself, my family and my friends. And I’ll do it any way I have to.”
Think of Scarlett Ohara’s Speech in Gone With The Wind.
“I’ll never be hungry again!”, becomes “I’ll never be surprised or want for anything ever again! I’ll get even with all the bastards in this world!”
That’s how you get Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi.
"The fundamental economic question to be answered in any society is "Who is to get how much of what?" The competing answers to that question are embodied in the ideological struggles in which we find ourselves engaged today.There really are only three ways to answer this fundamental question. Dr. F. A. Harper analyzed these in his book, Liberty: A Path To Its Recovery, as follows:
1. Each person may have whatever he can grab.2. Some person other than the one who produces the goods and services may decide who shall have the right of possession or use.
3. Each person may be allowed to have whatever he produces.
These three methods cover all the possibilities; there are no others.
The first is readily recognized as the law of the jungle; the second is that utilized by all authoritarian systems, while the third is the only method consistent with individual freedom.
"Who is to have how much of what?" That is the question. Communism has an answer, as does National Socialism and Fascism. The Fabians and Democratic Socialists think they have the answer. But when all these systems are analyzed, they come out the same, differing only in degree: The State will determine who is to get how much of what! This obviously means the economic questions will be answered by force and coercion.
But there is a better way: let the free market, willing exchange, profit and loss system determine what will be produced and in what quantity; who will produce it for what compensation; and who will receive it at what price.
There are really only two choices: to answer the economic questions by free choice — or by coercion!
(End of Quotation from "Freedom in a Nutshell," Kenneth Ryker.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, a creed of ignorance and a gospel of envy. It’s only inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery’’.- Winston Churchill.
A very good article by John Conlin. Thanks for posting.
A system such as this is called self-organizing. Life itself is self-organizing. Capitalism, free people freely interacting with other free people, also operates on swarm intelligence and is likewise self-organizing.
Just like the honeybee we’ve unknowingly used swarm intelligence to develop knowledge and create wealth that allows us to collectively live like none before. The beauty of swarm intelligence and self-organizing systems is that even for complex systems like human life and survival, behavior may be coordinated by relatively simple interactions.
But socialism in is direct conflict with this entire reality-based framework. It can’t work because its fundamental premises are in conflict with reality. There is no politics at play here, just a willful or naive attempt to wish for something which can’t be.
Another way of saying it is to point out that a neural net learns from experience to optimize its response to inputs to get desired results, and people in society learn how to prosper individually - and society as a whole profits collectively - without the existence in any one place of explicit knowledge of the whole system.The conceit of the socialist is that ability to criticize translates into the ability to do better the job the critic complains of. And that is nowhere close to the truth.
Very important point. A few "experts" who are in charge of a centrally planned economy may be smarter than individual citizens, but the combined knowledge of the small number of "experts" does not even come close to the combined intelligence of all the citizens in a free market economy. Bastiat talked about this. Also, the "experts" may be quite knowledgeable in the general field of economics, but what do they really know about the practical daily intricacies of running a tire store, or a grocery store or a barbershop or thinking of a new app? Only people with the inflated ego equal to that of an Ivy League graduate or prof would think that they were smart enough to effectively plan a national economy. Unfortunately, that type of over-inflated ego and pride is all too common in DC, on college campuses and among Dems.
I think it was Boris Yeltsin who came to the USA and his car procession took a sudden turn off the planned route.
They went way out of the way, I expect he thought we would stop him or something, but he was allowed to go wherever he wanted.
He stopped at a grocery store and went it. When he saw everything that was available he said “Our people would revolt if they saw this”
He probably expected Soviet-style limited goods, and that we were hiding this fact with ‘show’ stores that we were only allowing him to see.
I have the meme somewhere that says, “Socialism: you wait for bread.
“ Capitalism: bread waits for you.
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