Ideas and Opinions

Ideas and Opinions
by Albert Einstein

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Author: Albert Einstein
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-12-12
ISBN: 0517003937
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Bonanza Books

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Book Review: Beware uncritical capitalists, superior intellect ahead
Summary: 4 Stars

Before I begin, I was mainly interested in this book for everything besides einsteins views on science.

I acknowledge the necessity of capitalism but there are definitely social problems that cannot be solved by it, and any new solutions to societies social problems will because of hard work and technology of dedicated people, and not because of the idealogy. There are severe defects in market economies that cannot be overcome by capitalist market principles. I see enough people on disability and minimum wage everday to know that markets are fundamentally broken when it comes to the weakest in society and the insane pace of inventions and technologies making workers skills obselete. Then on top of that competing with other countries who have extremely cheap workers, genetic limitations on peoples potential and ability to increase their market value in modern economies, etc.

Einstein was truly a brilliant, caring and remarkable man. He has the hallmark of all true intellectuals and truly rational men: He saw that crime and violence and the disruption of economic security of societies weakest members caused by capitalism, as form of brutish ignorance of a backward, unthinking and animalistic minds of those in power that endorse it's doctrine.

Almost all superior intellects acknowledge the problems of market principles and market economies and how they cause economic insecurity, and the degenerate people that endorse and run them. See William James Sidis and Boris sidis realized this as well, James was a child prodigy, and his father was also genius of a man.

Obviously einstein never gave much insight into the kinds of solutions he would implement but he saw the fundamental problems: Those in power keep getting stronger and the rest of society gets their jobs and economic security (i.e. secure in their ability to obtain food, housing, clothes and a roof over their head) displaced constantly as new inventions keep displacing or devaluing their work or other countries with different currency valuations and emormous oversupply of workers keep devaluing their work, wages, and purchasing power.

In modern capitalism the strong get stronger, and the weaker have to worry about losing their wellbeing or ability to afford housing and food while living and when older. Many other ancestral societies would be turning in their graves at how stupid modern people are who live under the boot of capitalism when applied to human and social needs of societies weakest members.

The basic ability ro obtain food, cloth yourself and have a roof over your head should be *gauranteed for all*, no one really owns planet earth, people just love to believe other people own things. What a barbaric and backward system it is invented and designed by the brutish animal minds of those that came before us, einstein saw through the swiss cheeze thinking two faced apologists of capitalism, he knew that you cannot eliminate "poverty", since poverty was a requirement of capitalism to begin with, who would scrub your toilets, be your waiters and clean your hotel rooms, if poverty was not a constant *feature* built into the capitalist system?

As if 'poverty' was caused by something other then humans lack of ethics and ability to share food and responsibility to collectively maintain, build, and produce the necessities that enable them to live secure and then share them with one another. Einstein strikes right at the heart of the cause of 'social problems' in market economies: Market and market principles. He saw that markets can solve some problems very well but not others, he wanted a society that had the incentives and industriousness of capitalism, with the ethics of socialism, with none of the exploitation, economic insecurity (inability to pay rent, food, electric and heat, that drive people to crime in the first place, their inability to pay is what markets dictate, especially for those weaker members who's intellects and abilities are fixed by genetics) and displacement of capitalism.

Einstein saw that market principles are the *cause* of social problems to begin with. He saw other humans for what they were : Backward, ignorant and unethical animals without the will to solve their problems like rational and compassionate human beings, a capitalist idealogy is an idealogy of a 21st century barbarian, a necessary evil of the historical legacy of our inheritance of our ancestors.

Mark twain was correct in that human beings are a race of cowards and fools, at least at the present time. Once in a while you get a great mind like einstein who see's through the utter backwardness and degeneracy of the times we live in, while millions of people live in squalor while the rich live in the perfect oasis of power, an orgy of excess of riches and armed security, with society to do their bidding. In more ancestral societies, such rich people would be killed and burned alive for not sharing their opportunity and resources with those of the rest of the group and their societies.

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Summary of Ideas and Opinions

IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered here to create a fascinating collection of meditations by one of the world's greatest minds.

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