When Stalin came into power he
basically wanted to get rid of any traces of capitalism in the Soviet Union, to
essentially give the government all the power. Under his New Economic Policy he
tried to cause rapid industrialization which had the main impact on individual owned
farms. He wanted to transform the nation from mostly individual farms into
state-collective farms, which ultimately backfired. Workers weren’t being paid
for how hard they worked or their effort necessarily, so they began to stop
working as hard because their salaries no longer depended on it. This led to
extreme inefficiency.
The U.S. on the other hand is a
capitalism economy, meaning we have a lot more private owned farms. We have a
free enterprise system which allows small business and farm owners to compete
for profit with minimal government regulation. The amount a farm make a year is
directly related to the amount of work put in, crops produced, of livestock
raised, which is why we are so efficient. The profits are solely made and managed
by the farm owners, not the government, which is an example of our free
enterprise system.
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