As a child I remember my mother quite often telling me how “Life isn’t fair.” In your time it is clear that your nation strives for fairness as well as equality. In your description of the “Nation” I find flaws within the methods taken to achieve this utopia. You are no longer a nation of people, but a nation of laborers. I argue that the socialistic ideas established in your time are so flawed that the society you live in will fail just as socialist societies have in the past.
Allow me to begin with the methods used to sway the people into believing the fallacy that socialism is sustainable. Dr. Leete, you explain “no business is so essentially the public business as the industry and commerce on which the people’s livelihood depends, and …show more content…
Leete I am sure you will argue that you have all you could want. Yet the likelihood of that being factual is extremely farfetched. This leads me to my next point the mistake of abandoning the practice of money. You explain “As soon as the nation became the sole producer of all sorts of commodities, there was no need of exchanges between individuals.” (292).This tells me that as a nation we no longer trade with our neighbors nor other countries. In the United States we lack many resources to produce a great deal of commodities, this makes it impossible for the community storehouses to have everything an individual may desire. If a person desires something that a storehouse does not have, yet another country does; the inability to make such exchanges is infringing on the rights the new government has promised them. You also explain that “if a man showed himself a reckless spendthrift he would receive his allowance monthly or weekly instead of yearly, or if necessary not be permitted to handle it all.” (293). I wonder Dr. Leete, who determines what is reckless spending and who are they to say that a person cannot frivolously spend the “money” they earned? As you can imagine eventually people will get tired of not being allowed to buy provisions they want when they want to and will rebel against the nation. Again socialism begins on the basis of fairness but cannot truly keep up with the demands of the populace. One bad growing season or one epidemic and the nation you
Allow me to begin with the methods used to sway the people into believing the fallacy that socialism is sustainable. Dr. Leete, you explain “no business is so essentially the public business as the industry and commerce on which the people’s livelihood depends, and …show more content…
Leete I am sure you will argue that you have all you could want. Yet the likelihood of that being factual is extremely farfetched. This leads me to my next point the mistake of abandoning the practice of money. You explain “As soon as the nation became the sole producer of all sorts of commodities, there was no need of exchanges between individuals.” (292).This tells me that as a nation we no longer trade with our neighbors nor other countries. In the United States we lack many resources to produce a great deal of commodities, this makes it impossible for the community storehouses to have everything an individual may desire. If a person desires something that a storehouse does not have, yet another country does; the inability to make such exchanges is infringing on the rights the new government has promised them. You also explain that “if a man showed himself a reckless spendthrift he would receive his allowance monthly or weekly instead of yearly, or if necessary not be permitted to handle it all.” (293). I wonder Dr. Leete, who determines what is reckless spending and who are they to say that a person cannot frivolously spend the “money” they earned? As you can imagine eventually people will get tired of not being allowed to buy provisions they want when they want to and will rebel against the nation. Again socialism begins on the basis of fairness but cannot truly keep up with the demands of the populace. One bad growing season or one epidemic and the nation you