Iceweasel
Diamond Member
Your posts are like word salads. Can you speak more directly, rather than the effeminate method of passive/aggressive games?You are quite correct. Correlation does not equal causation. However, one of the basis of how we grow our knowledge base is by finding correlations (positive or negative) and then investigating the reasons as to why to see if there is a direct cause, indirect cause, or just an arbitrary correlation.
So, if you don't agree with indicating correlation between success and causation then you must also disagree with the OP, that pointing to examples where socialism has failed (China, the USSR, etc.) is NOT reason to believe that socialism doesn't work. Furthermore, you keep bringing up technologies and pointing out that they are primarily privately owned...okay? Does that mean that are free of the pressures of the governmental and economic structures that surround them? If you answer "yes" to that question you may want to go back to university (public or private, they both teach the same material), since I'm sure that the OP, who does at least have an education (public or private, since they both teach the same material), realizes that such an assumption is quite asinine.
My point, Poindexter, is that the private sector funds the public sector. The more government demands of the private sector the more difficult it gets to survive. So you end up with one of two things, state ownership of socialism or state control over favored businesses of fascism.
We've always had government and military, roads, ships, etc. So to you that means we were founded as a socialist nation. That's wrong.