The latest print version of U.S. News highlights the advantages of a capitalist system, this time in describing changes taking hold in an Israeli kibbutz:
Two years ago, life changed dramatically for members of this comfortable little community. They stopped receiving equal pay regardless of the work they did (or, in many cases, didn’t do) and started getting paid according to their productivity. Nina Ben-Moshe, born here 70 years ago, recalls the impact: “All these members who’d been staying home with back problems suddenly felt well enough to go back to work,” she chuckles. The kibbutz’s operating deficit vanished. “There were a lot of parasites in the old days,” she says. “It’s not like that anymore.”
That information is particularly striking as our federal government takes more strides away from markets and toward socialism.
