Rick Kelo on the 2 Ways to Organize Society

None of us is an island.  We all spend every waking moment of our lives as an individual, but also living in a society of individuals.  This is an unavoidable aspect of human existence.  So how should we best organize our interactions with one another?

Rick Kelo, a West Point graduate and outspoken liberal philosopher notes that there are ultimately only 2 ways to organize the economic activity of huge groups of people.  They're either:

1. The voluntary way, named Capitalism
2. The coercive way, named Socialism.

In the voluntary way, says Rick Kelo, consumers voluntarily choosing which entrepreneur most meets their needs.  The consumer decides which business owner will become rich and successful and which will fail. 

The only other way to organize society is by violence, coercion & force as the substitute of peaceful, voluntary cooperation.  For a government to seize private property and declare it their own as Venezuela did to their nation's oil or the USSR did to Russia's farms.

Rick Kelo