>What is really there to be 'lost' in a rigid capitalist system, if you are given nothing to begin with ?
The advantage of everybody else? ;)
But I've shot my Joneses long ago. No competition.
>In a poltronised / rotten communist system, problem was that very few people really 'made it'.
>Far to meny people were actually given a lot, without really earning it. Or given chance to steal.
That's where socialism failed to deliver: for a system that's supposedly ruled by working class, they didn't really appreciate work, did they? You could work and deliver all you wanted, you wouldn't get much better; you'd occasionally get your hand slapped if you started making some serious money by that work (either as an individual, or as a too successful a collective which would put others to shame). The extra wealth you created was spread to the less fortunate, in a display of workers' solidarity - or rather, you got all the disincentive you wanted, your honestly earned money went to the lazy bums on the other edge of town, who were drinking when they weren't stealing and vice versa.
As a programmer, I'm happy I never had to do payroll there - it was so full of tricks, the eternal game of people trying to get their own money into their own pockets, and the state inventing limitations, then them trying to dance around the limitations, then new limitations being imposed and round and round and round.
>In given political circumstances I will of course vote 'right', just to preserve this
precious balance.
>(FarToLeft = NoGood) .OR. (WildDellusionalRight=NoGood)
Exactly. One gets to be completely anticontrarian (antiprotivan) as a matter of a natural reflex to keep the balance :).
>But cheering at Wallmart ???
>Alija Sirotanovic&Co were given more of a respect in a day, then these poor people will see in their entire life.
The Orphanovich (that'd be the translation, eh? :) actually has an entry on Wikipedia, to my surprise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alija_Sirotanovi%C4%87Ah, respect.
