A good society is not just whether it is capitalist or communist or socialist. A good society weaves into its plan of action any policies that are bound to make it grow and it is vital to mention that such policies should not be at the detriment of another society or groups of persons. If any such policies endanger any particular group of people and threaten their existence, then such a policy may enjoy life briefly, but may in the long run ruin all the benefits achieved. The policies of a good society have to be supported and respected by the majority of all the main groups that make up the society.
In recent times, good policies have either been abandoned or thrown away because someone or some groups of people labeled them as communist or socialist or capitalist. A program is bad because it is intrinsically bad and retards progress, but not because it is associated with any ideology. What will strengthen the rich, strengthen the poor, strengthen the middle class and make each group to be more innovative makes a society better.
The wealthy, the poor and the middle class of any nation are an asset to that nation. A good society does the best it can to harness the energy of all these different groups of people to make it wealthier and stronger. What a good society does not do is try to stealthily enact policies to limit anyone beyond their will to remain stagnant in their class. Such policies only serve as breeding grounds for frustration and failure in the whole societal structure. It inadvertently creates animosity between different classes that leads to hatred and hence violent activities.
A good society does not try to create a level plane for everything for everyone. A good society creates a level plane for the vital elements (determined by a period in time) for everyone. Today, the vital elements could be education and health. A good education for everyone means stimulated creativity, a widening of peoples ability to develop leading to an increase in productivity and a significant decrease in covert activities and crimes. A good health care takes away the burden of affording for basic health treatment from people who just can not pay for it. If the wealthy can afford for health care, but the middle class and the poor can not, then there will be a gradual decline in innovation, productivity and a decline in an efficient and effective workforce.
Some nations have been slow to grow not because of their inability to think up good policies, but because of their willingness to stoop for the now ideas which are often shortsighted. A good policy is not based on false premises, not on prejudices, but on the need for a better and stronger society.
All too often, decisions and policies purported to have been crafted for the interest of all have the hidden tenets of prejudice, selfishness and greed. No society ever profits on prejudice, selfishness and greed. Any progress allegedly on prejudice, selfishness or greed makes one group of people better and another worse. The disadvantaged group goes away to amass forces and comes back fighting to get the same benefits or seeks to ensure no progress is made in any group at all. This is the indubitable truth of reality.
