Pay It Forward - Government and Market system

This movie presented a simple solution, though a difficult one to carry out: Pick the hardest thing you can possibly do for someone especially with least expectation of any return and do it. The acts permeated the country in this movie! Oh, Hollywood! I think it's possible, but really, it has to happen, because, again, we will be extinct if it doesn't. It's a very black and white issue to me: If we don't do this we'll die. But if we do, we can do anything!

Including set up a utopian Marxist system. "Pay it forward" is basically one part of Marx's famous phrase "from each according to his ability, . . ." We've never seen Marxism. We badmouth Communism, his theory, to this day, yet we've never even seen it. The U.S.S.R wasn't Communist though we call it that. Understandably it closely modeled the monarchies of the Czars as a dictatorship when it was a threat to the U.S. - under them, Stalin, Lenin, and Breshnev. Familiarity is contentment. It became slightly democratic when it became Russia under Gorbachev only after watching the U.S. and other "freer" countries for a hundred years. It was never Communist. China is a dictatorship. Cuba is a dictatorship. North Korea is a dictatorship. There is no Communist country on this planet. There never has been.

Marxism is for a more advanced civilization - the biggest reason why we've never seen it. Even we in the U.S. have inacted some "to each according to his need" type policies, like Social Security, State Parks, NASA, etc to move in a Communist direction. Unfortunately Capitalism mostly fits us now - we're still very greedy and proud. For Communism to ever work, 100% of the country must be beyond carelessness, pride, and greed.

I must be, but still I'm optimistic! Compassion and imagination are our best qualities! Not greed.