Quote:
Quote by: christibe  Communism works to eliminate lack, though. |
Capitalism is far better at reducing lack.
Quote:
|
When it comes up, something else produces a little more to counter
|
No, that's what happens in capitalism. If one business or even one industry fails to provide, another will arise to take it's place, because there is profit to be made in fulfilling that need. If there's a severe apple shortage, the prices of other fruits will rise as demand shifts from apples to other fruits. The increased prices will create profit for expanding fruit production, which will in turn lower prices--so people can replace apples with oranges or whatever, and not lack fruit.
This doesn't happen efficiently in communism because there is no incentive for an orange producer to expand production simply because the apple producer failed to produce sufficiently.
Quote:
|
In it, lack is the anomaly, not the requirement.
|
This makes no sense. Lack is a fact of life. No one can have everything they want.