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Originally posted by pinkgoth2
Anyway. As far as I can see it, everyone has at least the potential to keep their level of money at the same height, unless they're naturally unlucky or incompetent. So the "making the poor poorer" doesn't apply.
I don't know how it works in other countries, honestly, but I know here in germany we work with 90% non-existant money that's in the bank as virtual credits. The 90% (or whatever) virtually accumilated, and even without working with imports and exports, germany would get (as a whole) richer. So the rich could well get rich without the poor getting poorer! And they mostly do.
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I don't think you quite understand the concept of Currency here... Yes, 90% of the money is virtual money, but it's a fixed rate. Money can't just be created from somewhere - when it is, the value of the currency goes down. The only way to bring money into a country is to take valuable goods and resources from other countries. Ultimately, around the world, there it a set amount of Wealth. So, although it may seem that everybody in Germany is getting richer, someone somewhere (most likely in the Third World, and most likely
lots of people) is getting poorer... Also, since the more of a currency there is, the less its value, most people are not in fact getting richer, even though superficially they may seem to be...
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I don't know how many of the people that the state pays a share of money for actively bother trying to get a job, but ... I don't think I want to know.
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Most of them do. You're sounding more and more like a Tory with each post... Hardly anybody
chooses to be Unemployed, you know - It's not a happy life... (*wonders if Matt is getting the same deja vu he's getting...*)
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I philosophically discussed Communism with my mother a little. She likes the ideas behind it, of equality and such (I still don't), but her argument was that if everyone has the same chances, you don't have this great an urge to get better as it is with Capitalism.
Solution: Brainwash humanity so they lose their ability to imagine and reason! Then let them live like they would in nature. *l* (that sounds... odd) 
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There you go with the "Mindless Drones" view of Communism again... It's not that people don't have the same urge to better themselves under Communism, it's just that they find bettering themselves easier, and so they don't need to devote so much effort to it...