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History, Current Affairs, Conservativism, Business, Freedom. All in All.
Hosted by author, conservative, business owner, veteran, dad - GH Edwards.
Hey. It's GH Edwards again. So I do like to watch documentaries, and I watched one recently that is about a murder, but it's actually brings up and and shows a side of the world that most people never get to see. And that was the divide in communism and capitalism during the the Berlin Wall Cold War era. And it really shows the power and the need of capitalism.
Speaker 1:Now when I say that, let me caveat first. Once I say capitalism, a lot of anybody who's below the age of whatever thirty years horizons, capital is the worst. Okay. It's the best system that we have. Is it perfect?
Speaker 1:Of course not. Does it need regulations? It absolutely does need regulations. It does. But it is what has propelled the human race into where it is now.
Speaker 1:Is the ability to trade and to move your station in life, move up a little bit in life. So in this documentary, it's called the perfect murder, I believe. It's about the German people and whenever the Berlin Wall fell and East and West came together, basically, the Western Germany West Germany was capitalist and they were now absorbing East Germany's communist companies. So East Germany had been really used as a a funnel of power and sources and materials into the USSR, into Russia. So we got a great example to see what capitalism in the West and communism in the East actually looks like on paper in the end.
Speaker 1:Now, let's caveat the fact that it says East Germany did fail and this wasn't a pure example of communism and all of the liberals will yell at me because it's not a pure example of communism and, of course, not. You know? I will say that every example of communism I've ever seen has been absolutely terrible because humans get involved. But does this make me super anti communist? Once again, that's a mindset that you're coming in with and you wanted to be that way.
Speaker 1:Come in open minded, let's just discuss this, and let's look back at history. So when you've got West Germany comes in and they see these companies in East Germany that after the Berlin Wall has fallen, for example, like timber companies and steel companies or whatever, the capitalist companies go in and look at these communist run things and realize that the technology has not been updated. They have not stayed current. It's not run efficiently. There's dozens and dozens and dozens of employees that do nothing.
Speaker 1:They just get paid, which is communism. They're inventing jobs and inventing reasons and inventing bureaucracy so they give a person a job and they can pay them money. Meanwhile, capitalism is about efficiency, and I I like to say sharpen each other's swords. Okay? Let's say you have two steel production companies and one of them is adapting new technology and saving money and and maybe even reducing pollution at the same time, god forbid.
Speaker 1:Doing things that are going to help the bottom line more than the other steel company is. Well, the one that is embracing and being more efficient in sharpening their sword is gonna get the market advantage because they're gonna sell the cheaper, hopefully better product, and the other steel company will falter away and die. It's really how cattle capitalism is gonna work. So the other steel company has now had an incentive. I better sharpen my sword and get better than this company or I'm gonna be out.
Speaker 1:And this is a fact of capitalism. This is how companies improve each other through competition. The government, on the other hand, does not deal with that. Who's the cap who who's the competition of the DMV? What incentives does the DMV, the Department of Owned vehicles, to get your license and everything like Where what incentive do they have to sharpen their sword to get better at what they do?
Speaker 1:They do not have an incentive. No one you don't have a a competition going on there. Sure you can go to a different city or a different DMV or whatever, but really there's not competitions. You can go into Google and look at the Google reviews of DMV. Like, why are we Google reviewing DMVs?
Speaker 1:As if like, you could just say, oh, I'm I'm not gonna get a license now. No. They they have the market. That's that's the communism socialism side of things, whatever you wanna discuss, which we'll get into that later. But the documentary A Perfect Murder exposes these differences.
Speaker 1:So what happened was someone in West Germany came in and was trying to put these former communist companies, basically make them capitalists now. And the real solution came down to, we gotta just honestly destroy, wreck them, just knock them down because they're so far behind the times. I mean, everyone's gonna be unemployed. There's major issues, and that was a huge thing. But this guy who came in, they end up someone end up killing him.
Speaker 1:But the idea of it exposes what communism actually looks like. The gray drab block communism. And why is it gray and drab and block? Because everything was about producing something for the government. Does the government need to have bright pretty buildings?
Speaker 1:Well, they don't think so. Does it need to have art and music and doesn't make need to have that building look nice? No. It doesn't. It needs to be efficient and cold and there you go.
Speaker 1:And you get to see that. Once again, does that mean I believe in unfettered capitalism? Absolutely not. Need to have regulations in place. We need to have smart people in place to put smart regulations that doesn't kill business, doesn't put people out of jobs that don't need to be out of jobs, and lets competition be competitive so we can achieve the next level.