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Impenitent · Nov 7, 2003, 05:38 pm

a few questions for the pro communist crowd...

who will be the doctors?

who will be the engineers?

who will be the inventors?

how will they be trained?

why would you sacrifice 10 years of your life to learn the skills of medicine and not get anything out of it?

why would you sacrifice any time of your life working harder to educate yourself for any occupation with no benefit for so doing?

if you could get exactly as much stuff for a days worth of picking lettuce as you would get for practicing medicine/surgery and saving lives, what would be the incentive for doing it?

if you would get exactly as much stuff for a days worth of flipping burgers as you would get for making sure the electricity and power were operating correctly, and replacing power lines when they malfunction etc., what would be the incentive for doing it?

what would be the incentive for risking your life daily working in high risk industries eg. firefighters?

what would be the incentive for doing the jobs that no one wants to do eg. sewer or garbage management and the like?

there are a myriad of jobs that require many years of highly specialized training nowadays... why would anyone waste the time learning how to do those jobs when there is no incentive for them to do so?

from each according to their ability...

some abilities require many years of training to acquire... some abilities are better and far more valuable than others... some abilities are beyond the grasp of many people... abilities are not equal...

to each according to their need...

do children need more than adults? do the handicapped need more than the able? do the insane need more than the "well adjusted"? who decides what each needs?do some need more than others because their abilities justify their getting more?
is everone mandated to recieve the same bare pittance when the value of their labor is so obviously different... do you believe that everyone will live like kings? everyone?

do you want equality? do you think communism will be equal? the jobs by virtue of their training requirements alone will never be equal and the ressentiment would be palpable...

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Impenitent Hot Lava Posts: 1,859	a few questions for the pro communist crowd... who will be the doctors? who will be the engineers? who will be the inventors? how will they be trained? why would you sacrifice 10 years of your life to learn the skills of medicine and not get anything out of it? why would you sacrifice any time of your life working harder to educate yourself for any occupation with no benefit for so doing? if you could get exactly as much stuff for a days worth of picking lettuce as you would get for practicing medicine/surgery and saving lives, what would be the incentive for doing it? if you would get exactly as much stuff for a days worth of flipping burgers as you would get for making sure the electricity and power were operating correctly, and replacing power lines when they malfunction etc., what would be the incentive for doing it? what would be the incentive for risking your life daily working in high risk industries eg. firefighters? what would be the incentive for doing the jobs that no one wants to do eg. sewer or garbage management and the like? there are a myriad of jobs that require many years of highly specialized training nowadays... why would anyone waste the time learning how to do those jobs when there is no incentive for them to do so? from each according to their ability... some abilities require many years of training to acquire... some abilities are better and far more valuable than others... some abilities are beyond the grasp of many people... abilities are not equal... to each according to their need... do children need more than adults? do the handicapped need more than the able? do the insane need more than the "well adjusted"? who decides what each needs?do some need more than others because their abilities justify their getting more? is everone mandated to recieve the same bare pittance when the value of their labor is so obviously different... do you believe that everyone will live like kings? everyone? do you want equality? do you think communism will be equal? the jobs by virtue of their training requirements alone will never be equal and the ressentiment would be palpable... "I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..." insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results...