18 May 09
Originally posted by scherzoBecause if you don't get a decent education, whether due to choice or bad luck, you don't have the skills to get a decent paying job. Addiction to drugs and/or alcohol, having mental illness, and history of incarceration also prevent people from getting decent paying jobs. Some people can't find affordable day care and others just don't have the willingness and self-discipline to find and keep a job. People lose their jobs due to improved technology or a worsening economy. There are tons of reasons that there is still poverty, if you define poverty by income level or lack thereof. I'm not sure any system excludes poverty. Under socialism, what happens to addicts, people who don't want to work, and the mentally ill? Do they live as well as everyone else?
Then why is there still poverty?
19 May 09
Originally posted by pawnhandlerIdeally, in a socialist system, people would work for the government, which would in turn work directly for the people. (Like democracy, but economic.) People who worked would receive necessities such as a house, water, electricity, food, health care, and social security (which covers the question of those who had worked, but are then too old). In addition, some money for luxuries would be given. Addicts would still have to work, as would people who wouldn't want to, otherwise their power would be cut off and they would basically lose everything. The mentally ill could be fit into the social security somehow. Not sure of the technicalities and practicalities of that.
Because if you don't get a decent education, whether due to choice or bad luck, you don't have the skills to get a decent paying job. Addiction to drugs and/or alcohol, having mental illness, and history of incarceration also prevent people from getting decent paying jobs. Some people can't find affordable day care and others just don't have the willin ...[text shortened]... ople who don't want to work, and the mentally ill? Do they live as well as everyone else?
19 May 09
Originally posted by scherzoSo just as much poverty as under capitalism.
Addicts would still have to work, as would people who wouldn't want to, otherwise their power would be cut off and they would basically lose everything. The mentally ill could be fit into the social security somehow. Not sure of the technicalities and practicalities of that.