The Un-American wrote:So, do you think companies should be allowed to pay their workers as little as possible and people who are unemployable due to disability should just eat cake?Adama wrote:It doesnt matter what the form of government you chose, because the state has no real obligation to the people.The important question is who controls the state? That's what matters.
As for economic systems, communism removes the incentive for people to work hard or well. What really matters is, who controls the banking system?
I would actually counter-argue that the extreme capitalism in America and the world has caused the quality of service and material things to decline over the past 35 years. When people are over-worked and under-paid, they don't care about doing a good job, they just care about keeping their job and surviving through the day. And that's what libertarianism usually leads to - overworked, underpaid people and a small, predatory upper class hogging all the resources.
Also keep in mind that the toxic American brand of feminism is very much the handmaiden of our predatory capitalism.
I've had jobs where the bosses decided they didnt like me, and once they found the smallest mistakes I made, they used those to fire me. I am 100% pro unions now. We need them to protect us from the greed or hatred of the employer.
I also recently found out that at one of my previous jobs, they are replacing US citizens with H1B visa people from the Philippines, who are working for 1/2 of what the US Citizens are making.
H1B visas and NAFTA should be outlawed. Employing illegals should be punished in a similar way as some other white collar crimes.