– well in this situation both demand and supply should be
– balanced that poor consumer would not effect badly like
– what happen in past when the prices was very high and
– people don’t have money to save. So both demand and
– supply should be balance equally that in future we all
– wont face the supply shortage and again it gonna jump
– to above $100.
– - Posted by Muttaqi

The futures market is the machine which does this balancing. The problem is that nobody knows what future conditions will be. We guess. We do the best we can. Anyone who is willing to put their money where their mouth is can participate, through the commodities and commodity futures market in this great feat of prognostication. People who have made good predictions in the past can use their profits to continue to predict. People who have made bad predictions lost money, and so are less able to move the market in the future. It ain’t perfect, but it’s the best *possible* system.

The problem with the Socialist ideal — the government should make these decisions for everybody — is that it presumes that anybody who works for the government is omnipotent and omniscent. Having lived under George Bush’s sad, pathetic reign should have eliminated that superstition, but the socialists now think that Obama has some magic ability to know the future. He doesn’t. Nobody does.

We are imperfect human beings, ignorant of our future, and we have two choices: we can accept our humanity, and live under a capitalist system where we are free to benifit when we’re right and take responsibility when we’re wrong, or we can switch to a socialist system where when the dictator is right everyone benifits and when he’s wrong everyone suffers — except for his henchmen, who still live well at our expense.

I’d rather suffer for my own mistakes than suffer for somebody elses. I’ll take capitalism any day.