A Reader Writes
“When you remove profit motive, people get lazy and it’s worse for all. Why work to become a doctor for 10 years if you are so poorly paid or overtaxed that you barely do better than a janitor? Why do all the hard work to start and run a company if the rewards are stripped away? Unions and socialism are similar — they reward the untalented and mediocre and punish the talented and driven.”
— Silk, regarding American Socialist
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Disregard the fact that the people who do become doctors do so because they actually want to help people. Even if they’re terrible doctors, they’ll know that they’re being taxed heavily enough that the country will offer all of its citizens free health care.
I know Finland is far, ultra far left, and I never understood why America was so scared about going there. I mean really, is this place scary?
That summarizes the great American missunderstanding of European contemporary socialism quite well. It’s not about making everybody exactly equal, it’s about trying to give everybody the same chances to control their own destiny – free universities is a basic foundation of that. And trying to take advantage of the power of market economy but limit the enormous dividing inequalities that come along with it if unrestricted.
Then if you choose the harder doctor path you will earn more than the faster nurse path, the choice is yours. Differences between the privileged and the poor are quite large here as well.