Quote Originally Posted by d0zer View Post
Haven't you been reading wuf's posts about capitalism with welfareism vs socialism/communism? It's not communism just because the government funds healthcare and education because the means of production, and the relevant dependent manufacturing are still under a capitalist system.
But they're not. The government isn't just subsidizing these systems, it's telling the providers of these services exactly how they should do their work, and forcing its subjective and often arbitrary morality onto them.

And the means of production and manufacturing aren't under a capitalist system at all. Now sure, everything at a school isn't made by a government controlled entity from a government school bus to a government pencil. But the way in which these jobs are distributed is often corrupt or nepotistic with few incentives to cut costs.

(warning: anecdote)

When I landed my first architecture job, it was for a firm in Atlanta that had a contract with the FAA to do design work for the airport. How we landed this contract I'm not 100% sure, I'm assuming it's because the principal of our firm was a big guy in the Atlanta community and well respected. It was very lucrative work.

During July every year we would participate in this project where we would physically go to the airport and do all these surveys, using a click-counter to count how many people go through different entrances, corridors, security checkpoints etc. Everyone who worked at the firm was invited to do this work, it required absolutely no skill. I did a couple of shifts with my boss, my hourly rate was 16 dollars, his was like 60 dollars, and we were billed out to the FAA at 4 times that much. So basically they were paying 240 dollars an hour for my boss to count cars driving into the economy parking lot at 5am.

So this is an anecdote of how government "capitalistically" allocates its resources. A private airport administration entity would have hired college kids to do its surveys and paid them with beer. The FAA has very little incentive to cut its costs, and every incentive to distribute massive amounts of tax dollars to whatever winners it chooses.