Message from @Timo)))
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Socialists aren't my top enemy, but they're up there
The only way for actual efficiency is through worker's control of the economy.
Period.
No third-party regulations from the state, where it can be bribed and legislated out of existence.
I don't think so, the best people in the sector are the best, simply because they'd get richer for their better services, something stifled currently by governments colluding with big business
I agree with your last point, but not on how to do it
A bigger socialist government is just as volnurable
I disagree. People who are rich aren't rich necessarily for being "the better" at services.
Bankers scam people all the time
"real socialists"
Wells Fargo just got caught doing it.
COMMUNISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED BEFORE
True, but that's because they can buy power from the governments, shrink the governments in areas it's not needed and you get fair competition
No bailouts for one
But when this "shrinkage" goes on, it eliminates the protections of the working-class. In reality, to the bourgeoisie, it's an opportunity for investment.
Let's take my country for example, America.
We're currently trying to repeal Obamacare (a shitty system nonetheless) to free the healthcare market up, so people may invest. Democrats and Republicans have their own lobbyists and rich people they appeal to, and Obamacare represented another side of that bourgeois interest.
get what I mean?
The current system is fucked, we both agree
I would say you are more Libertarian, but the thing is, self-regulation with capitalism is unattainable. That's why we have regulations come about in the first place.
And we end up in the same cycle.
A lot of regulation is very positive for certain sectors though
If you agree those politicians are bought and paid for, they're not making it easier for new businesses
Take the high tax for private businesses for example
The new businesses of today are the big businesses of tomorrow.
The average joe pays for it, the big business simply put their stuff in panama
I agree. There is a gap between the small businessman and the big businessman, but the dynamic between what the worker may do and the employer can do in the present and future is still there.
I'm not arguing for a big government.
I don't want the state to nationalize everything, unless they have to when they're under attack.
I want worker's councils, unions, etc so the workers have a direct say in government and the economy. That's what socialism is about.
We can't have that without interfering with the Bourgeois' interest though.
That's an observable fact throughout history.
What happens when a new company comes up, and agrees that he owns the company, he'll run it without the counsels and manages to get big.
What happens to that guy in your society?
He wouldn't be allowed to run it without the council's democratic say in the first place.
It depends on the area, but in socialism
that kind of one man owns everything ownership does not exist.
Why not? It's his idea and he has people who consent to letting him keep it
Because it creates the inequality we talk about it.