is the final proof that socialism is bankrupt and that the future
belongs to capitalism!
Now that capitalism itself in a crisis, the sound battle cry the
opposite direction: This is proof that capitalism does not work!
That capitalism in the worst crisis since the early thirties of the
last century, is certain.
I'm not sure South Africans know exactly how close Europe - and with
it the rest of the world - currently the abyss moved, I would count
two millimeters is not too far out.
But let a man in the reflection on these matters only with a different
starting position: Do the world a view not ideological.
I define an ideology as a thought structure that you prescribe what
reality should look like, instead of the fact that he himself declared
lit.
An example: When I was in 1989 the first time in the former East
Germany, wash the air pollution intensity of all the stinking smoke,
caused by the low-grade lignite that the elektrisiteitsentrales
driven. But no, according to the prevailing communist ideology was
environmental pollution exclusively a problem of capitalism, it could
not under socialism happen.
And so I lied to my nose. And I was just imagining that my eyes
watered and my throat burned.
So, again: Do not look at the world ideologically. Use only your
sober, common sense.
Apartheid was such an ideology. And capitalism can be.
An example: As a half decade ago, the buzzword in Europe
privatization. In the Netherlands, including the privatized railways.
But the whole business is to sell one private company, without
competitors operate. And so many unprofitable routes closed, and put
certain communities without or with inadequate rail transport.
Service has almost disappeared as a motive and was replaced by an
almost exclusive focus on profit.
Well, profit is not a curse word. If a company does not make any
profit, he played bankrupt, and we can all along the street sat
begging.
But the one-sided focus on profit has a negative effect.
The books look better and the price to rise is excessive bonuses paid
to all managers.
For at least some of those people bonuses - their wallet - become more
important as the company where they work or service to the business
society must provide.
It was one of the main causes of the credit crisis of 2008, which
itself has an underlying role in the current financial crisis plays.
Now we go a step further. You, dear reader, is the breadwinner in a
family, say, R20 000 per month net to bring home. You do not want
within that limit live, you take too much of all luxuries. And so will
give you R22 000 per month.
If you do not want to rob bank, you need each month R2 000 loan. It's
money with interest to be repaid, and if your behavior does not
change, you will sooner or later bankrupt.
That's what many countries in the world happened.
Countries such as Greece and Italy for many years beyond their
capability lived, their deficit still be increased, with the result
that they are so close to bankruptcy as dammit to a swear word.
America do the same, and the process under Pres. Barack Obama even accelerate.
What does it all for capitalism? It says that capitalism is no magic
formula is, that one is still common sense to use.
The free market approach is correct. But as Adam Smith (1723-1790)
have learned, it must be accompanied by shared interests of rich and
poor, employers and employees, governments and citizens. Other cases
go wrong. Like now.
)? The author is Media24's correspondent in Europe.
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