32. The Difference: How Outcome Is Determined

The Difference: How Outcome Is Determined
Bob Komives
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Ideas, people, and products compete intensively-both within a corporation and within the markets where the corporation buys and sells. Competition is often mistakenly equated with marketplace and free enterprise. Socialism fosters and tolerates every bit as much competition as does marketplace. Where they differ is in how results of competition get determined. In a marketplace, price (or value-per-price) is the arbiter. In a socialist system, the group or its authority figures decide based on merit, not price. Merit is judged according to criteria socialized into the system.

We uncovered certain socialist acts
perpetrated to settle competitive dispute.

Our Central Committee named a general secretary in
..... the old Soviet Union.
Our board of directors promoted a manager
..... at good-old General Motors.
Our boss sent one among us
..... to the workshop in Hawaii.
Our parents chose one among us
..... to finish the three-layer cake.

We Uncovered Certain Socialist Acts

:: Bob Komives, Fort Collins © 2006 :: Plum Local IV :: 32. The Difference: How Outcome is Determined ::
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