This is a major reason that capitalism is better. Also, a free market in a capitalist society deals with the economic needs of the people better than socialist or communist government planners. The complexity of human behavior and the vastness of one society is too great for human planners to address. A typical example of this can be found in the former Soviet Union. The planners of this communist nation issued a plan that factories with the greatest production of cloth textiles in feet would receive monetary bonuses. In response, the factories narrowed the size of cloth, producing more feet of unusable textile. This irrational outcome would not have occurred in a capitalist government where the usefulness of the product would be a paramount consideration. Rather than emphasizing job security of citizens, capitalism prefers harder and more efficient workers over less efficient workers. Although one may have had a job for sometime, he/she may still be replaced by a more efficient worker. This code of work ethics forms higher levels of competition, boosting work quality and production. Many privately owned companies exist in capitalist societies. The population is not vast enough to support all of these companies. Therefore, the company producing the most desired product earns the most money while companies producing the least desired products eventually go out of business if they do not adapt to the market. This too inspires higher productivity through competition. Although forfeiting security, the incorporation of competition in a capitalist society makes better products for its citizens, increasing the standard of living. Furthermore, a capitalist society justifies differences of wages in different jobs. Services in a capitalist society work in a similar manner as products. If a service is particularly important to a society's population, the person performing this service will earn more money.
