>>19
Enron anybody? Or white collar criminals doesnt count as free riders now?
>>16
I loev welfare. I believe the unemployment benefit should be at 120% of ones latest salary. But im an extremist so what do i know.
No, according to my logic the sallad pisser would be the free rider that doesnt invalidate the whole system. But the system in USSR can hardly be called ideal for a socialist. The workers did not own and control the means of production in any real sense, and one of the reasons for this was because USSR was not an industrialized country at the time of revolution, meaning there where no factory workers, just a lot of farmers who tried to cope. Britain was not super efficient either the first 50 years after the industrial revolution.
And that said, the free market is not more efficient by default. One example is health care, where the US has the most expensive per capita while its quality is in the bottom of the OECD countries. Swedens health care system costs a third per capita, while its quality is in the top 5. Swedens health care system is more regulated than the american system, yet its more efficient. Why?
http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf