Special Guest Blogger: Adam Smith

While Karl Marx is thought of as the father of Communism, his counterpart would be me and my 'Wealth of Nations' book that decreed that the motivating force of economic growth assigning each worker a specific task to maximize efficiency even if doing the same thing over and over on a production line gets snooze-a-rama but the motivating force is selfishness.
My analogy was that: 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' which means that the Butcher is not selling you meat because he enjoys or wants to sell you meat, he is only doing it to make money and this desire to make money benefited everyone as he spent this money hiring people and buying other things from people selling items and the money went around and everyone got a slice.
While Marx's slogan was that Communism would produce enough goods and services so that everyone's needs can be satisfied, mine was that being selfish and greedy is the key to satisfying everyone but i did underestimate the pathetic self-regulating powers of mankind when it came to selfishness.
My assumption that as the butchers, brewers and bakers fortunes rested with the fortunes of others, it would act as a brake on just how selfish we would be was wildly wrong.
I also mentioned 'the invisible hand', an idea that even if corporations act like greedy dickholes, the market will always deal with them by itself without the Government butting in to regulate corporations, or tax the rich, or bother with commie bullcrap like welfare, so just sit back, and let the invisible hand sort it all out therefore proving Capitalism is just the best, you guys.
I wasn't big on taxing the rich, when you’re successful, nobody wants to be bothered especially not by the poor who never really understood that in my system we need poor people. The rich are the yin, they are the yang and it’s okay to be poor and instead of complaining about being poor, enjoy it!  Watch TV!  Don’t vote!  Eat stuff you find at the side of the road for free. Who cares?
Without doubt my Capitalism filling the bank accounts of the top end while it empties those at the bottom trumps Marx's Communism with its sharing things out fairly for everyone and as the people at the top of Government are very rich people, it's all fine and Capitalism works for everyone as long as you don't get sick, grow old, be poor or underprivileged, lose your job or expect to eat decent food.