(10-05-2010, 07:19 PM)unity100 Wrote: im under the impression that, you are trying to bring the subject to 'because everyone doesnt have different 'skill sets', the amenities/opportunities they should have should differ according to their 'skill sets'. is that correct ?
You are partially right. I am trying to boil the subject down to a few key differences. As now we seem to start to recycle previously discussed stuff.
But you did not get the question correct.
First of all there is no 'should' here. Who is to decide what they should and what they should not. That is again a government mentality, that someone higher than you will write the rules and tell you what you should an should not do.
I am trying to point is that you are painting a world where all are equal and same. I am showing that they can be different but still considered equal. You seem to using equal and same interchangeably, highlighted by the example of everyone wearing the same clothes. And may be they will live in the similar looking houses. They will receive exactly the same things in order to be equal in your definition. There is so much emphasis to be equal. But entities are already equal, it is your judgment that makes then unequal. They are on an evolution path and differentiating themselves by their biases. So someone may have to bias to live in a big house and another wants to experience being poor. But your socialist system would decide for them and give them all same sized houses. The choice is taken away from the people and a ruling group takes over. Now you say everyone will rule equally and but I say yea, they might and due to their differences in their nature and biases they will come up with different ideas. For your socialist system to work they all need to come up with exactly the same thing to do. They need to live exactly the same way.
(10-05-2010, 07:19 PM)unity100 Wrote: let me put it in the 'uniqueness' context :
regardless of how different you are like a snowflake, than another person in your society, you would get exactly the same salary in a positive society. (if we put it in crude terms of this planet).
I thought in your system money would not (or rather should not) exist. So what salary you are talking about even if speaking crudely. Why should they receive same salary anyway? what if they have different needs? One person has 5 kids and another is just a bachelor. One person wears same clothes everyday and another wants to wear different clothes everyday. Will you stop them from being who they want to be, stop them from working harder and earn more if they want to live differently. And create extensive regulatory framework to stop people from doing things differently. Who will decide what and how much they should consume. Why can not we leave the decision with them and let them decide how much they want to earn. Your system will take choices away from the people (intentionally or unintentionally) and we have seen this over and over again in various practical situations on planet earth.