America’s only solution is SOCIALISM — redistribute all the wealth.

Today, I read an article in Newsweek about how Social Security and Medicare are destined to go bankrupt — they advise, let them go bankrupt now instead of later.  It is interesting to note the article doesn’t suggest any solution to the problem of the aged (who have paid social security their entire lives) or the sick (most everybody will get sick before they die).

No fear — the answer is SOCIALISM.  It is the ONLY answer out there. That is, take all of resources available and employ all the people with living wages.  Remember, as a country we can define money however we want.  In fact, we can eliminate money if necessary.  Just figure out a way to provide housing, food, and basic necessities.  Keep reducing the hours people need to work until everybody is employed.  Nobody starves.  Everybody gets health care.  Plenty of food.  Lots of education.  The country and the citizens can exist without capitalism and people will be happier — happier because they won’t have to worry about basic necessities.   Happier because everybody will have roughly the same.

Forget about Capitalism, it is dead, just not buried yet.  But, clearly dead.  I didn’t kill Capitalism — it was a suicide.  Capitalism is about greed which results in optimizations and efficiencies.  Greed is the motivation but efficiency is the result.   Efficiency always leads to destruction.  For example, think about anything that you can do more efficient that you use to be able to do it.  Anything.  The result is that less time needs to be spent on the activity.  If you translate that into jobs which pay wages, then either your wages have to increase or you make less money being more efficient.   Each time companies are merged it results in lay offs and efficiencies.  Continue the process over and over again and there is only one company left employing just a small fraction of the original.  Efficient?  Yes, but where did all the jobs go?  This is the basic problem with capitalism and the reason it is doomed.

Did you ever see The Jetsons?  Remember George flying to work, throwing his feet up, pressing one button, and then going to sleep.  That was certainly efficient and what is exactly the purpose of George hitting the button?  I’m pretty sure that one person could go around and hit all the buttons for a hundred Georges, maybe even a thousand.  In fact, maybe the boss has one super button that when press, activates the buttons for all of his employees.  Yes, capitalism is efficient but it doesn’t pay the bills.  Plus, as capitalism puts more and more people out of jobs then there is no money to buy products from employees of the yet to be laid off.   Capitalism = Destruction.  Marx predicted it and America is showing that he is correct.

America is doomed.