“...in business we practice servival of the fittest and evolution and should be unequal but that this system generally helps everybody become better off. See capitalist countries like US, UK, Canada, Japan, etc”
Agree with the second part, disagree with the negative look at first one. It requires clarification.
1. unequal
Two different worldviews understand equality differently. One, millennium old, but in modern politics taking roots from the French revolution, understands equality as equality of the result. Bolshevik revolution, for example, had “No more rich people” as one of the driving ideas. As the latest debate on New Haven firefighters case shown, a large part of our society understands equality same way: as equality of result. But the traditional American understanding of equality is/was equality under the law - equality of opportunity. What you do with it, it’s a different story and your personal responsibility.
2. Survival of the fittest.
Who decides what ideas and business models are better? A central commander, a bureaucrat, a czar? Market embodies a distributed and accumulated wisdom of millions to reward good ideas, good management, lucky timing and discard bad ideas, bad management, and yes, bad timing. As you know, the history showed that the market is more efficient in doing this (not perfect, but more efficient).
Besides, who am I to say that the creator did not create this mechanism? :^))
And to answer your question, I think that socialists (at least the smart ones) do understand the mechanisms, its just they are arrogant enough to think that they can exert a better control.
Thanks for the clarifications. I didn’t mean to make it a negative.
Obviously as conservatives we believe that our world view is better and that people are better off under capitalism
Liberals, socialists, and communists believe that they themselves are better off under communism or socialism.