User blog comment:Goldenrebel25/Um... Guys?/@comment-5590986-20140403194325/@comment-5590986-20140404181017

Each country have their own kinds of capitalism. I too speak from the information online.

With communism, there will be no free enterprise. People can't start up their own buisness (such as lemonade stands) to earn money.

Let's say the United States Army was a country. The company that creates the military rations would be like a foreign country trading with the Army. They have no problem selling the Army junk goods in order to make a profit. However, since there is no profit structure built in to see which meals are desired by the soldiers, you have a large surplus of unwanted meals. Not only that, it takes decades for a new item to be taken out of distribution. This mirrors the supply issues that the Soviet Union faced during communist rule. There were times when there are massive surpluses of food items that would perish on the shelves. There are other times when there were massive food shortages. It was this inefficiency that weighed down the Russian economy. Without a profit structure in place there was no way to find out which products were in demand and which products were not.

Just from the standpoint of resource distribution, capitalism is far superior to communism. Although there may be a lot of unfairness and a lot of disproportionate wealth, it is better to have wealth for trickle down than to have a system where large swings in supply availability can cause either starvation or large-scale food spoiling. If an apple sits on the shelf for weeks as it rots away, all the work that went into bringing that Apple to market would be a complete waste of human resources. We try to create utopias, but we don't realize is that utopia is impossible. All we can hope for is the best society we can create. In striving for perfection she meant he has a history of destroying vast amount of human potential. It is my opinion that capitalism is a horrible system, but that it is also the best system we have.