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Wouldn socialism promote laziness? Isn capitalisms policy of forcing people to work for their very survival a good thing?

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Wouldn socialism promote laziness? Isn capitalisms policy of forcing people to work for their very survival a good thing?

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No. The only incentive in capitalist society for members of the working class to render their labor power to society is for their survival, and the ability to acquire material goods (many of which are useless and merely for “show”) and the only incentive for capitalists to provide jobs is when they deem it “necessary” and worth their expense, no matter how much society may need the products their companies create or the services they offer, and these decisions are based soley upon the prospect of making or not making a profit for the shareholders of the industry in question [a very good and sad example is the recent widespread closings of the trauma units in various hospitals due to lack of a sufficent profit and/or available monetary funds to “justify” the capitalist owners of the hospitals to keep them open, regardless of the immense need for these units and the number of lives they would have saved]. As a result, we have many socially useless jobs that revolve entirely around the ha

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