Capitalism and communism are both ideals…they don’t really exist. Capitalism is corrupted by those that break the rules of the game and the same is true for communism. It turns out rule breakers are easier to find and punish in capitalism than in communism…but that doesn’t mean any system is ever “good.” All we can do is get “better.”
Discussion
Indeed! True capitalism and communism have never been genuinely implemented in practice. However, the corrupted form of capitalism is still by far superior to its counterpart.
Yup. Kills fewer per century…the war profiteering of the USA has killed millions. But this pales to the roughly 100 million people communist/socialist countries killed in the 1900’s.
basically non of these systems can exist when enforced with exceptions. any (fair) government would need:
1) sound money
2) simple laws
3) open governments (no secrets)
also i believe that there is always a need for a balance between these concepts. but thats another (long) story