At 5/26/09 02:09 AM, Valexillion wrote:
No one is poor since everyone's payment was balanced enough to so you'd be able to afford everything that you need, like food, clothes, etc etc.
There were a LOT of poor people in communistic countries. The reason is pretty simple, everyone gets payed according to what job they do (not every job gets payed equally). Whether people did their job good or not, didn't matter. This led to a lot of people neglecting or ignoring their responsibilities, which itself led their companies to run inefficiently. When all of your companies run inefficient, the governement doesn't get what they should get in terms of money, which leads to lower paychecks, etc.
People were also not able to buy food all the time. Khrushchev's "virgin lands" campaign, lead to the USSR buying wheat from Canada, in order to avoid a starvation.
But I gotta say, free medical care and a free college education would be tight. BOOM!
That would've been nice if it worked, surely. Obviously it didn't.
Grab the damn diploma and escape to USA or some country that'll transfer your papers into a Masters, Bachelors or whatever kind of fancy Diploma systems they have.
This wouldn't have worked either. If you'd be a docter in Zimbabwe and went to the USA, your diploma would've been shit. If you're living in a communistic country, where everything is predeterment (even what you'll go study and what you'll do for a "living"), it's highly unlikely that you'll either have a high degree diploma, or a diploma that actually is worth something in the USA.
