Those mother WEFers have been pushing an agenda where people stop judging others. So as to stop calling vices, vices. That virtues are just a made up thing. And now we got people protesting about feels over reals.
And the biggest vice that is being promoted as good is Envy.
This is the root of why communism is so seductive.
Those people who are envious of people in higher positions or better financial positions, and do not want to work hard to get what they view as their right to have, would like nothing better than to bring everyone down to their level.
Sure, they would like to have all the riches. Secretly that is what they want. But really, they are envious, and they would really like to see "those rich capitalist pigs" dragged down into the mud.
The entire structure of communism is "good feelings" based on bad notions, and hoping that all the facts are wrong.
The bean-counter always thinks they can run the factory better.
This is one of those traps you can get stuck in if you really do not understand entrepreneurship.
Thinking that the manufacturing factory can be run better, if only...
These people, bean-counters, can look at the factory and compute, if these widgets could be made 1% faster than the company would increase profits 100%... or something
Not realizing that their isn't extra demand to buy the extra widgets, nor how hard it would be to get the production line to go faster. Ever try to get a bunch of grumpy people to strive harder?
All that the bean-counter does is get rid of all the perks in the company making it a much less comfortable place to work. Like, they remove the free coffee because it costs the company thousands of dollars a year, not realizing that the coffee is the reason why productivity is as high as it is, and that going to get coffee provides a much needed micro-break for work staff.
The bean-counter rarely sees the innovation that could transform the company. They just know they could do it better, if they were in charge.
All the assumptions are wrong!
There are a lot of assumptions about the world, that must be assumed, for communism to work.
Such as, people are all equal. That they could all perform the same, at the same level, to the same degree, if they try hard enough and are trained properly. That people are blank slates.
Unfortunately, this is not just wrong but incredibly wrong.
People vary greatly in their abilities.
As Pareto showed and wrote about in his principal, 80% of the production is done by 20% of the people. That is, one person in five, does 4x as much output as the others combined.
Do you know what will give your farm a minimum of 20% better yields?
Something the rich can only afford? No. But you might think so, because all of the wealthier farmers do this.
What they do is weed their garden. The lazy, or less motivated, just cannot put the effort into pulling the weeds out.
This is something completely in their control, and under the power. But only like 1/5th do this. And they get a bigger harvest. And if they do this year after year, they will continue to make more money. They become the rich farmers.
Some people have tried to train and educate the poor farmers. Usually to no avail.
Instead, what you get is poor farmers envious of the rich farmers. They would rather pull down the rich farmer than get out their and tend to their own crops.
And when communism takes over a country, the rich farmers are all killed... then, shortly after, everyone starves. It is not because "that wasn't real communism" it is because of natural differences of people.
Destruction of Progress
The biggest thing that communism does is it destroys progress.
Invention is a weird thing. You would think that huge corporations with huge budgets would be making all the inventions, but it is not. It is almost always the little guy in a garage that makes the breakthroughs. (of course the corporations all swoop in and steal it)
The inventor needs a lot of things to be true in order for them to invent.
- They must live in an environment where they will be rewarded from their effort.
- They must not live in fear that knowledge of their invention will not get them killed.
- They must have free time and free resources. (quite rare in our world throughout recorded history)
All of these things are minimized under communism. As the communists do not take kindly to someone using extra (whatever is needed to perform experiments). And coming up with a new way to do things will often anger one of the higher ups by threatening their job. And why even bother when you won't get anything for it.
Communism is built upon Vices (the lack of virtues)
So, as you can see, communism (as a political institution) is doomed to failure.
Not because it wasn't done right, but because of the assumptions about humans is completely wrong.
People are not blank slates
People are not equal
People are not naturally good, and would not naturally work for the "greater good" (whatever that is)
(i should do a whole set of blogs about the "greater good" not existing. And being folly... destructive, to ever try to achieve)
And the incentives that drive men are all ignored / inverted so that men are less productive.
"They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work" - East German saying
Communism is evil! (lacking in virtue)
Communism is Envy made into a political force.
