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Posted by JayMan on Thu May 12 13:57:33 2011, in response to Re: Why Socialism Doesn't Work In America (not that it can't), posted by orange blossom special on Thu May 12 12:31:40 2011. Money has no discrimination. In Tampa there were no segregation on the streetcars. Five cents = five cents. Discrimination only comes from socialism and social capitalism.So I agree, but I have reservations about the system you want and propose however. For somewhat circular reasons. Also, you're assuming incorrectly that free markets/centrally planned markets (classic excluded middle fallacy at work, BTW) operate irrespective of racial issues and racism—ignoring that Homo economicus does not exist and that social and economic systems operate in the framework of human nature, and that ethnocentrism and tribalism are very much a part of human nature. The main reason that Western and Far Eastern economies work first and foremost is because of the people that inhabit these places, and I think that's a point everyone is glancing over. The economic model based on human capital and trade with an educated workforce only works on people with a triple-digit average IQ, and this is why it has thus far been unsuccessful in its application to the rest of the world. Only in these societies can enough people attain educations and hold down the highly cognitively demanding jobs that a First World society needs in order to function. I'm arguing that America never embraced the social welfare model that the rest of the developed world has because, in part, of its diversity. The rest of the First world has a natural all-inclusive mentality because they are homogenous. America on the other hand has been historically more tribal, worse, we don't have a fully productive enough populace (as the tired old wisdom about how so bad we're supposedly doing educationally vs the rest of the world constantly reminds us). |
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