re th century capitalism in article mar jane uh edu mece d jane uh edu chris struble wrote christian struble writes some people are not very good at getting the best deal for their effort and others are unwilling to put forth much effort even in the face of economic incentives there will always be some people who are stupid or lazy relative to the ability or effort of most others the question is what do you do with them there are three options kill those who are not productive as a drain upon society this is the communist all who do not toil shall not eat lenin or fascist approach you re being too generous to the communists i think in practice communism has solved the problem by killing off anybody who is too productive and who therefore raises embarrassing questions about why the rest of the group is a bunch of sluggards the mass butchery of kulaks in the ussr is a good instance of this a poor second best is to have a neighboring capitalist country to which people of politically incorrect skill and ambition flee i often wonder just what castro would have done if the cubans presently in miami would have been forced to remain in cuba would they have revolted and killed him off or been killed best of all is to build a wall locking the citizens of your country in load it up so heavily with attack dogs barbed wire and land mines that most people fleeing over it die and then give everyone the choice of obedience prison or flight this would be a bad science fiction novel if the east germans hadn t actually done it the last person to die crossing the wall as i recall was an unarmed woman who was shot in the back erich honecker was going to go on trial for that but he fled to socialists in chile it s good to be kind to one s intellectual opponents but sometimes it s a sheer waste of time erich schwarz schwarze starbase caltech edu
