Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on ""TIK's definitions are wrong!" (about Socialism & Capitalism)" video.

  1. The problem with Socialism more than any of it's endless list of flaws is that simply it cannot adapt to the cyclical nature of humanity. There are always cycles to society, world economy and order and Socialism is simply unable to adapt to these changes, Governments can NEVER reduce their size only grow larger and larger, by it's most fundamental form, Socialism is unable to shrink. Capitalism, companies, private pocket books can all shirk during hard times and reduce expense, to pay off debts to leverage against increase risks in the environment but Socialism can do NONE of this. This is why the Soviet Union collapsed it could not shrink during a global recession that occurred in 1990 and lost control and collapsed. Recessions occur to Communist nations, Socialist nations it is a human nature and unless the system of state can adjust then it will fail too. Capitalism will force bad preforming companies, stores and individuals to fail and make way for new development or people with opportunities to expand in their place, Socialism offers none of this, it is inflexible dead end and will eventually fail. Every country that boasts about Socialist programs is funding them using Capitalist systems or else it would end up like Venezuela and that could still happen in the future. Unfunded Social programs are stifling western economies and could in the future risk global stability and economies once again due to the failures of Social programs inability to shrink their sizes to account for a changing human environment.
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  2. Socialism and free markets are the opposites, Socialism means the government has control and free-market means that the market (the people) have control.
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  3. What you describe is just arbitrary explanations for natural formation of humanity. People choose to live their life out of free will (if they are permitted to) and this is the natural and wild choices we all make. You can try and explain it any way you like but it is arbitrary. At the end of the day the power of the state needs to be shared in a fair way so that the people can always at the very least hold the leaders accountable to their actions. Can the people of Russia hold Putin accountable for his actions? No. Could the people of the Soviet Union hold Stalin accountable for his actions? No. So you see the problem here? Once a group of people take power over the state, call it Socialism, Communisim, Fascism, the name means nothing it is arbitrary, they will never relinquish power without spilling blood. If you give people power without accountability they will never let it go. The problem is that Socialist programs like health care, free education, funds for illness, old age, these are all very attractive and even noble ideas to better life and society, free money, however every piece of social program makes the people more and more dependent on the state, thus increasing the power held by the state and open the door to future tyrants and groups of interest to take power away from the people. Getting freedom is costly losing it is free.
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  4. Indeed.
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