“Can You Multiply Wealth by Dividing it?”

Should Capitalism be kept? Should Socialism be kept? They both have their benefits and of course their bad sides. Capitalism allows everyone to work for their money, and earn the money that they work for (in a normal world of course), and Socialism allows all of the people who don’t do anything to earn just as much money as all of the people who work hard. And mind you, there is still corruption in both case scenarios, so I suppose they both suck just as much. They both aren’t fair, because the people that work hard deserve the credit, and the people that can decide the costs, will ask too much simply because we all want to be powerful.

In elementary and somewhat in middle school we always wanted to be the best, and wanted to earn the most credit, the most recognition for our work. And boom, when you enter high school, suddenly it’s stupid to be the one with the highest grades. I suppose you could compare the school way of life in elementary and middle to a kind of capitalistic view, and high school is more of a socialist view. If everybody gets the same grade anyways, why study? If we all want to try and fit in, in High School, and being stupid is cool, why bother studying to get a high grade if it's un-cool anyways? If I’m nice to the kid sitting next to me, I’ll get a star, so why not be nice?

There is no real socialist country; they are more considered a mixed country. The United States of America has a socialist country, in the sense that all of the basic necessities are cheap, and all of those workers earn the same amount with a fixed ‘price’; this system is based on the believe that people should cooperate and coexist with one another. Whereas the countries in which there is real capitalism, the government believes that there is competition that will bring out the best in everyone, and create more revenue.

Cooperation and coexisting with one another are very important things that we as humans should do, since it is only natural… it’s part of what makes us human. But then again, people want to have recognition for the work that they deliver. How can two systems like that be turned into a system that could work out for all of us? One without money? No competition needed, right?

-- Sara de Jong
10A
Weekly Writing Assignment #2.