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Originally Posted by femdomdestiny
There are various forms of socialism and capitalism and rules depending on country. It depends on personal ideas and vision of life what do you like more. While in capitalism you can become very rich and have incredible things ,is socialism you can have things like free education,health care, secure job, free housing. Life without stress and tensions resulting in lower death rate and much less crime and agression.
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There's no such thing as "free education", "free housing" etc. It doesn't matter if the government gives it away for free, there will always be a costs involved. School buildings cost money to build, to maintain, to heat,... Teachers don't work for free. They too need to eat and feed their families. etc.
The difference between free market capitalism and socialism here is that under free market capitalism, you are free to buy the services you want and you are free to not buy the services you don't want. Under socialism, the government will use force to take away part of your earnings and use that to pay for those so called free services.
I live in one of those Western European countries with so called "free health care". When I go to the doctors, I pay him for his services and he gives me a piece of paper. I can then mail that piece of paper to some government licensed organization and they'll send me a refund for the amount I paid the doctor. Guess what I do with those little pieces of paper. I throw them in the trash. I refuse to ask the government to rob my fellow human beings in my name.