Thomas wrote:okie wrote: I wasn't talking about a government job in capitalistic society, but rather when I said "working for the State," I meant working in a highly socialistic or communist society where you cannot keep what you work for or own property, etc. What I meant should have been obvious.
In this case, I don't see how your comment is relevant at all to the reality of public affairs in America. Although I know influential politicians trying to create more government jobs within America's capitalistic society, none of them wants to abolish capitalism and replace it with a highly socialistic or communist society. Only a few cranks want that, none of whom stands a chance of getting elected into any public office higher than dog-catcher.
If your comment was only about people who work in socialist or communist governments, how did you mean it to apply to America? Or didn't you?
Thomas, you need to go back and read the posts to understand the context. Imposter was arguing with MM and asserted that his success was mostly due to luck, whereas MM said it is mostly due to hard work. I agreed with MM, and did add that wherein imposter claimed being born in America was good luck, I argued that the favorable circumstances were created in America, not by luck, but by hard work. Imposter claimed hard work in other countries did not pay off as in America, but I simply pointed out that capitalism and free enterprise in a country with low corruption and rule of law encouraged more hard work.
Luck is not enough. Luck is nice, but people also create their own luck, as cyclops described very well.
Everything I said is entirely logical and basic, and anyone that has studied economics and history should know it. I find it incredible that anyone should even argue about it.
I want to clarify that hard work includes not only physical work, but brain work, which includes good management, which are all encouraged and maximized by free enterprise.
