Here is a great forward i received a few days ago. It is on Socialism and why it has not and will not work.
Meanwhile working on lot’s of things, experimenting and been busy with work and photography in general.
“An economics professor at a local college made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that.”
I could not agree more with this post. It is quite tersely put. But this does not justify Capitalism. We have seen over the past year how Capitalism has failed in America. You cannot have a society which lives on exploiting the weak and poor. It is not a world that belongs only to the rich. A balance is needed and forgive me but I will digress into philosophy. The mantra of Nature is balance. We need a balance between the principals of Socialism and Capitalism. What do I mean?
I believe that we must be a capitalistic society to the extent that we have freedom. A person must be capable of earning what he can and spend how much he can without the Government telling him how much to earn and how much to spend. I believe that one’s money is one’s money earned hard and well deserved. The idea of distribution of wealth is ridiculous. But this Capitalism must engender a feeling of helping the poor and the miserable. There must be service that is woven into the fabric of such a society. The capable, rich and wealthy must be actively involved in helping the people who do not have opportunities. They must teach the lesser fortunate people to fish, not provide the fish every time. This approach would avoid what we saw in the example above. It will avoid the feeling of “Why should I do for the benefit of others?”
This feeling of helping others and uplifting the lesser fortunate only comes through spiritual values. When the identification of being a human being first and only then position, wealth, fame, caste etc. This is where I believe that organizations like the Art of Living come into picture. They engender spiritual values. This is the need of the hour and the way I see it, it is inevitable. It is happening and going to happen. Just wake up and see.
