Unrelenting Steve
18th September 2003, 22:36
I recently went to Parliament for my job shadow, I did this today and yesterday, I have never learnt so much, changed so much in a shorter period of time. I see that in a lot of my criticism I was wrong, the ANC (the ruling party) seem to have good intentions, and even better intellectuals, but their Marxist route will just not work (I mean this in the way they wont to open our economy to attract foreign investment so we can manufacture more things and get more jobs) there are 44 million people living in South Africa, and 40% unemployment, meaning approximately 40% of the people go without a job or a bread winner. Now they want to lower import tariffs and open our economy, so we can turn into a good competitors and get rich and then we can turn socialist. It seems great, but I maintain its not, and thinking about this has changed the courses I will do at varsity as I know I am not really qualified to make full judgment on economic policy and so on, but what I have been thinking seems to make a lot of sense.
First off, the modern society that is competitive needs to consist of more producers of actually products (as in not services) than that particular society needs. This has come about through advances in technology and the need for mechanisation as it is cheaper than labour in most cases. Let me attempt to illustrate this in a simplified manner;
Lets say people only need bread (yes they need electricity and running water, but lets just role them into one, bread) so we have harvesters and millers and bakers. This makes up for 1/10 of the population and these people can produce enough bread to supply everyone’s needs. Now lets just say that people need doctors (yes then need doctors and physiologists and politicians and social workers, but lets for the purposes of making it simpler just turn all of them into one; doctors) these doctors account for 5/10 of the population and are able to cope with everyone’s use for them, but now only 6/10 of the population are employed, so what do you do???? In communism this is dealt with easily; you can just force your production to be more labour intensive and have less work hours for everyone because you don’t have to be competitive, but in capitalism you turn your left-over 4/10 of the population into more bread makers and then you sell it to some other place in the world; thereby bringing order and a balance to your society and the deficit is shipped to some foreign land.
Its 12:13am I am very tired, 2 long days at parliament, so I will finish this later, ne1 got ne comments so far, I wonder if this is what has been discovered earlier by other communists because it seems pretty straight forward and obvious after you think about it for a bit, so is this plagiarism or do I have something here? or is this wrong, ne comments. All I need to do is say what my country must not fall victim to that system.
First off, the modern society that is competitive needs to consist of more producers of actually products (as in not services) than that particular society needs. This has come about through advances in technology and the need for mechanisation as it is cheaper than labour in most cases. Let me attempt to illustrate this in a simplified manner;
Lets say people only need bread (yes they need electricity and running water, but lets just role them into one, bread) so we have harvesters and millers and bakers. This makes up for 1/10 of the population and these people can produce enough bread to supply everyone’s needs. Now lets just say that people need doctors (yes then need doctors and physiologists and politicians and social workers, but lets for the purposes of making it simpler just turn all of them into one; doctors) these doctors account for 5/10 of the population and are able to cope with everyone’s use for them, but now only 6/10 of the population are employed, so what do you do???? In communism this is dealt with easily; you can just force your production to be more labour intensive and have less work hours for everyone because you don’t have to be competitive, but in capitalism you turn your left-over 4/10 of the population into more bread makers and then you sell it to some other place in the world; thereby bringing order and a balance to your society and the deficit is shipped to some foreign land.
Its 12:13am I am very tired, 2 long days at parliament, so I will finish this later, ne1 got ne comments so far, I wonder if this is what has been discovered earlier by other communists because it seems pretty straight forward and obvious after you think about it for a bit, so is this plagiarism or do I have something here? or is this wrong, ne comments. All I need to do is say what my country must not fall victim to that system.