Darren New wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>> Why do people from the USA want to shout about socialism?
>> It sounds that (in the US) “socialism” is becoming a synonym of 
>> “Communism”
> 
> What do *you* think the difference is?  They sound pretty similar, 
> except one has stuff owned by "the government" and one has it owned by 
> "the people".
> 
Problem is, the "the government owns it", model isn't far off what you 
get with unfettered capitalism either. We had that once in the US, 
before anti-trust laws. Companies owned you house, your clothes, sold 
you your food, provided you with *less* than necessary to pay it all 
back, and even had their own mini-military, to "protect" the companies 
assets from people prone to show up demanding higher pay, or a way out 
of their contracts, or a decrease in their debt to the company. We 
thought this was an horribly bad idea at one point. Now... I am not so 
sure some companies are not backsliding into it. Pretty sure a few 
companies, for example, that sell consumer goods are also offering 
"credit cards", along with the vague discounts they give to their 
employees, while actually "lowering" their pay. One grocery store, as an 
example of the pay lowering, Krogers, I think it was, had many of their 
divisions re-structured so that they went from having 2-3 different pay 
scales, and special pay for meat cutters and others, to *one* single 
wage for all non-managers. Minimum wage. Overnight, they lost 
*everything*. Now all they have to do is offer home loans and credit, 
and its right back to the same BS all over again.

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