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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5134347" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Which was definitely the case when GM and Ford built cars that fell apart around 100,000 miles.  The Japanese ate our lunch with better quality.  That's one of the foundations of a free market economy: competition is good for the consumer.  Competition gave us better tv's, better phones, etc at lower prices.  Socialism removes the incentives to compete.  That's a major reason it always fails.  People like [USER=56035]@rickyb[/USER] can't stand that some do really well under capitalism.  They don't have the wherewithal to compete and are envious of the material success.  Much of the strife in the world is based on envy and resentment.  If people could manage to be happy within their means there would be a lot less strife.  But many never are happy with what they have.</p></blockquote><p></p>