Funk N. Furter wrote:
A socialist economy would be a lot more efficient than a capitalist one. I already gave you one example that would give people more time: getting rid of unemployment, ie sharing out the work.
OK so converting from a system like the USA where most people work far more than 45 hours a week on average, with an unemployment rate of 7.6% currently, propped up economically by minimum wage or less workers working 50+ hours in foreign countries making items that break in a few years... That will be replaced by part time workers who somehow are more efficient because they cut hours, get paid better, have a 7.6% higher workforce, and are making a product that is? The simple fact is in order to make a better place for yourself and others, it's always a matter of work. That, is something I think is indisputable, societies that have low work ethic have low standards of living, regardless of opportunity and lack of exploitation.
It really dawns on me from reading what both you and Balmer write that what we have now in the west is a working system that pretty much covers all bases, provides for the poor and disenfranchised, doesn't go through hostile bloodbaths at the top among the wealthy that often, and offers you who are invalid with opportunities to survive etc.
It's not what any of us want, but it's better than what you two are proposing, in the sense that people are not dying in the west because someone wants a 35 hour work week, or to not pay taxes that go towards your medical health etc.
