Allards on Nostr: Thanks for the human readable reply. Without profit many people are deprived of ...

Thanks for the human readable reply.

Without profit many people are deprived of something that motivates them. It’s killing off innovation and the kind of hard work that produces the goods people need to life live.

If we accommodate people based on their ability and needs, all you get is needy people without much more ability than to be wining beggars.

Ayn Rand nailed this in Atlas Shrugged’s chapter, “The Twentieth Century Motor Company, which was a microcosm of any society that tried to organize itself under the principles set forth in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

We all have heard the phrase “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” communism is in the business of handing out ‘free’ fish. Unfortunately it’s someone else’s fish, and when they run out of fish, everyone goes hungry. We have seen this everywhere where communism, Marxism or socialism has been tried, everyone ends up off worse.

So we don’t need a dictatorship of any kind, we need people with good morals, who develop skills and the will to apply them, being rewarded when they do great work (Value for value)! Perhaps some struggle in their lives, but they should be helped by teaching them how to catch fish, not how to beg and steal from others. The few that are really needy (handicapped, down syndrome, mentally ill, etc) will have no problem to find people who help them.

If there is something that needs to be fixed then it’s too much power in the hands of governments, religious organizations, big corporations, billionaires and unelected elites! We need to find a balance between what’s good long term versus daily needs and want and be transparent about the process and decision making.