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Regarding the commentary on controlling rents (“Rent stabilization may ease housing woes,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Nov. 15): What is the point of anyone providing housing to people if they cannot be compensated for their efforts?
I think former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that communism is an economic failure, back when the Soviet Union was disintegrating in the early 1990s.
The Cold War is still going on all over the Korean peninsula. I think a market economy, with workers compensated for their efforts, is much better at providing food, housing, medical care, transportation and many other things.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Phil Robertson
Kailua
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