Unemployment, and so on

[eppie]

I had a discussion with a friend about this sort of thing today. Living in a pure capitalist society is not very appealing to me. Living in a pure socialist society is not appealing either. I've said it before, but we need a measure of balance between the two. A purely socialistic society that says "screw you" to people that work a little harder, or are a little smarter, or are a little luckier than the rest and then takes all of their wealth and redistributes it is unfair. A purely capitalist society that says "screw you" to people that are not as smart as others, lose employment, suffer from a catastrophic medical condition, or generally down on their luck and lets them go homeless or dead is also unfair.

CAPITALISM [----I------] SOCIALISM

It's a slider, much like how you select the quality of your graphics in a video game. Frames Per Second vs Image Quality. There is a tolerable balance between the two, but it is up to each society to decide that for themselves.

What a dissapointment....I thought that that slider really worked deebye.
Would be great during posting just to slide a bit....

I agree with what you say.....that is why I am always saying that scandinavia is doing so good (just like the Netherlands 20 years ago).