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Capitalism Island Essay There has long been a dispute of which economy is work the best communism socialism capitalism Wars have been fought over it and jokes made about it but the truth is that no one has got it perfect and it probably never will be This topic was recently discussed in my English class and a scenario was given to us In this simulation my teacher had created a supposedly perfect capitalist society with only a small amount of other socialist ideas such as price fixing government healthcare etc In my opinion this structured and set capitalist economy would not only be very unrealistic and maybe not the best idea for a group of high school students trying to survive and be sustained on an island for only a few years For such a situation I would have preferred a more communist approach Besides this is a small group of kids who will more likely be complacent and helpful in order to work together to find their original home in America However in a real country such as America the situation is very different due to the large scale thinking and overall happiness you need to consider For a truly fair economy that still has the freedom of choice no matter the consequences I would prefer a more complete capitalist economy with only education socialist programs and support for the poor from private or religious organizations or charities In our simulation our economy should have been more of a work together situation with no private or restricted property unless it was decided so by the democratic process People were picked from a box at random to decide who got first pick of all the equal sized property in our classroom project Next all of the resources were accounted for and the people who shared the food and water supplies met in the back room to fix the prices there food or water supplies
