[quote=livinincali][quote=ltsdd]
You are contradicting yourself here. If socialism is one system that can reasonably contain corruption, as you claimed, then please explain why it hasn’t been able to do so in the aforementioned “socialist” countries? And why is corruption appears to be worse in those “socialist” countries than it is in the non-socialist countries?[/quote]
The problem with a socialist utopia is it is still governed by people. Most extended families (20 or so people) couldn’t even pool their resources together and allocate them fairly in the eyes of everybody in that family. How is a group of people going to do that for 300 million people? It just never is going to work and it never has.
Even for something small and simple like all the piggs putting their resources together and letting CAR allocate them would be an impossible task for CAR to handle. And yet somehow there’s some smart guy/girl, some think tank, some computer algorithm that can properly and fairy allocate resources for a nation of 300 million. What is fair is always in the eyes of a person, it’s hard to measure.[/quote]
+1
The central planners are also never even close to as efficient as a free market. That’s why you have one type of car, one type of shoe and there’s never any bread or toilet paper. The profit motive is a powerful force to keep the shelves stocked and is absent in socialist and communist countries.
