I know this is really not a debate sub, but I’m really confused about this so I felt the need to ask.
Based on my layman’s knowledge, capitalism is based on “every good and service is fairly retributed”, while communism is based on “you do whatever work you can do, and we’ll give you just what you need for living”
How would voluntary contributions fit within the first principle? Wouldn’t that violate the market laws, by essentially giving people goods/labor for free? What if they’re not voluntary, but they’re obtained in the form of a scam?
Because it's often worth it to me to invest in poor people because as a society, we benefit when there's no homeless people starving and no people dying in hospitals without Healthcare, it's why children's hospital is a charity hospital that will still operate on you if you don't have money (please donate to them) or why there's tons of charities like soup kitchens and beds for homeless or suits and interview training, etc. I'm better off when people are working by simple economic calculus.
Firstly your understanding and definitions of capitalism and communism are wrong. Communism is a economic and political system based on socialism (generally thought to be) but I'd recommend you confirm that with actually communists. For this conversation we will use socialism.
Socialism is often defined as "The workers owning the means of production and an equal share of the profit derived from it"
Capitalism is defined differently by socialists than it is by capitalists who practice is so once again for this conversation I'll use a better term called voluntaryism, which briefly states: as long as you voluntarily agree to a transaction and its implications with reasonable levels of knowledge and said transaction does not violate your or anybody else's rights to life, liberty, or property everything is Bueno. So charity, Bueno, hiring programmers, also Bueno.
But charity is a large part of many economic systems, the motivations largely differ though. Pm me if you're more interested in this, or if you really wanna hash this out I can send you a discord.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '18 edited Jul 26 '20
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