"I've done a lot of reading and thinking"
And no one else has ever done this, ever, forever ever.
You sound like some typical angsty pseudo-intellectual teen.
I am past my teens now but thanks, you on the other have not done anything except for insulting others and voicing your uneducated opinion.
@ Adan, yes we have very different understandings of what communism actually is.
This is the case because you don't know anything about it as it seems. As I said before communism is a system that guarantees that everyone is getting what they have earned.
How? By letting the working man earn as much(or approximately as much) as a doctor or a politician or anybody else. It was designed to prevent the concentration of money in the hands of a few, who in fact do nothing but bring the money to the bank/investment managers and other "buisnessman". It does not involve violence, a police state, or dictatorship and fascism, and does not have to be like Stalinism.
Comunism is a word, you can name your dog comunism, and then you are right if you say "comunism have hair". So don't talk about the correct use of the word. A lot of words have different meanings for different people, and there is not a correct one.
Are you saying the doctor isn't a working man?
Well. Lets imagine a world without money, just for this example. In this world, people don't "earn" anything, they just make things, and what they "earn" is what they do. And then, they can do what they want with it.
Obviously, not everybody make the same, the man who plant more plants, have more food. And then, they change products.
Well, some of them, they don't make things, they offer their work to others. For example the doctor. And those who maje things, decide if they give him things or not.
And obviously, they prefer the best doctor, and the best doctor have more things. Or maybe not, maybe they prefer the bad one, and the bad one get rich, but they decide.
Well, now a man think "hey, why don't we start using money?", (Im not going to explain why, but I can, if you want me to explain), and they start doing it. And its all the same, but with money. They don't "earn" money, they make a product and they change that product for money. So you can say they "make" money. And they do what they want with it. It is exactly the same. And obviously, not everybody can make the same thing...
And then, a man came, and he told the town,that everybody will be happy and money and products will rain if they give him their money. And people gave it to him. But some of them didn't want it. And the man said "I don't want to use violence" but he steal what they make, and he don't leave the man who plant give his plants or his money to the doctor, he said "all people must earn the same", so the doctor said "well, I'm going to earn the same? well, I prefer to don't work very much" and a good man think. "thats a grat idea" and work a lot... and earn the same as the rest. And, this is a story, so the wizard earn the same, but in real world he get very rich. Well, but, even in the story, he was the one who decide how much will everybody earn, it don't mind if a person prefer one doctor, cause he said "there are doctors enough"...
And let me tell you the funiest thing, the wizard said "I won't use violence", those who don't think that was a good idea? not violence, cause I'm a wizard. And nobody see violence, he used magic and the disappear. Did you see anything? Well, no prob, you disappear too, without violence.
Is this what you understand when you say comunism? Explain me how the wizard can controll those who don't think thats a good idea. As you see, I don't have the thoughts of a teen, more young. And I really don't understand it.
"Uneducated opinion"
My MS in math says otherwise... and what do you have a degree in, art history? Philosophy? Some other meaningless study? Or were you too poor to go to school. Is that why you're bitter?
fuck, I really can't write worse, I read myself and it's horrible, but I think you can understand.
@adan whoa buddy you say this :Look at upallknight, he is not selfish, he loves the poor... and he wants adicts and stupid people to be slaves and pay his bill.
This is a pretty ignorant way of repeating what i said. The addicts and stupid people pay for their OWN healthcare through taxes on their vices.
Keep in mind that cigarettes have caused a huge strain on healthcare in many countries, so why shouldnt cigarette taxes offset those costs?
Those of us with good employment can either afford BETTER healthcare and medications or have benefits that also accomplish this task. Those with no means to pay can still have decent healthcare while those of us with the means can get BETTER healthcare.
Noone suffers - everyone has access to hospital care, but the rich still get treated a little better as it should be in a capitalist society.
It really is not even a matter of compassion as much as it is common sense, but i sleep better at night knowing there isnt needless suffering going on around me, and i dream well knowing it doesnt cost more overall than healthcare in other comparable countries.
The sure way to know you are wrong is if you are either too far left or too far right - the truth is really somewhere in the middle and only the truly ignorant dont have an open mind
Hey, I have an open mind if that means I pay attention to what other said. But I don't have an open head (with an axe) if that means I can't see the difference between what I think is correct and what I think is wrong. And I'm not a capitalist, I'm not anything-ist, But I don't like when a guy say what I must do with a gun in his hands, thats all.... Do you think thats because I don't have an open mind?
So, you want to pay for a commun healthcare? Then, pay. I'm not going to stop you. But I don't know why I must do the same thing if I don't want to pay.
I don't understand why the rich should be treated a little better, I treat him like the others, I just do deals, and he can offer more. But if I see I don't like him, I don't care how rich he is. If a poor man can offer me something I like or if I enjoy helping him, I'll treat him better than the rich. But... hey, man, I don't treat people seeing how much money they have.
Well, people who don't think usually sleep better, I see people die while we are talking, just cause people don't think. Look at this, doesn't matter if communism is a great idea, we both are sure with one of those ideas, people is going to suffer. But nobody explain a shit though. Everybody have some ideas, they think the other ideas make people suffer, and they don't explain. I just don't get it.
Do you know how can they pay for their own health wothout taxes? Well, going and paying a bill. They don't need to be forced to pay what they want to pay.
"but i sleep better at night knowing there isnt needless suffering going on around me, and i dream well knowing it doesnt cost more overall than healthcare in other comparable countries."
Why should I have to pay more so you can sleep well at night?