Bingowings said:
imperialscum said:
Bingowings said:
I'm fortunate not to want my Country to be global scale.
You did not quite understand where I was aiming at. What I was trying to say is that now you are (we all here are btw) in the top 5% of world's population that exploits the rest of the 95%. If you will move down the global scale as a result of bad local economic policies, such as excessive local social policies, (or if others will push you down) you won't be able to enjoy the "nice" socialism. If you move into the 95%, the only socialism you can have in a poor country is the one makes everyone equally poor.
If you are trying to say to enjoy the benefits of socialism one must first go through a period of capitalism. I would agree with you but so did Karl Marx.
I met him you know?
I told him to introduce the cigar and the funny walk into his act but he didn't go for it like Sigmund.
What I was trying to say is that the global economy always have and probably always will function according to basic natural laws (which is capitalism in other words). It is either your country will play by those rules, be successfully at it and be in the rich 5%; or fail at it and end up in the poor 95% who are exploited by the 5%. It is naive to think that everyone could have a couple of cars, a couple of mobile phones, a couple of computer. If people in 5% of the countries can have all that then it means the people in the other 95% must work for that.
Unfortunately, the human, however sophisticated, is in its core still an animal. We still have and operate by natural instincts of self-improvement and such. The capitalism targets those instincts that is why it works so "well", while socialism goes against them. If you will enforce too excessive socialism in one country you might risk people instinctively asking themselves "why do I work my ass off when everyone gets the same" and work less and less, which will gradually diminish the country's global economical power. And that will lead it into those 95%.
Note that I personally think that what I described above is unfair and bad. But that is how it is. It is a jungle on a different level. I am just being realist.