You keep using that word, sharing. I do not think it means what you think that it means.
What you’re describing is free enterprise, not socialism. Jack and Jean are voluntarily bartering. Good for them.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.” Adam Smith https://t.co/5uJ4AeS2y5
— Gail Heriot (@GailHeriot)
“Sharing,” mind, at the muzzle of a government gun—with the nomenklatura skimming all the cream right off the top for themselves and their fellows in the privileged “elite” class, and none of the downtrodden, oppressed serf class will get anything but the very dregs, far less what they truly need. Where all is rationed, regulated, and forcibly redistributed into needless artificial scarcity, and there is never enough of anything to go around. Where creativity and the innate human drive to excel and to better oneself is outlawed by soulless bureaucrats whose greed is only matched by their love of cruelty to those they consider their inferiors.
Bottom line: after a century and a half of failure, moribund economies, and over a hundred million deaths (that we know of), anybody who still clings to socialism is nothing but a goddamned idiot.
If they weren’t stupid they wouldn’t be socialists.
A goddamn idiot .. or he thinks he’ll be ruling.
I’ve known a handful of professed communists or socialists. (Plus quite a few “liberals” or “democrats” whose every policy could be found in the platform of the CPUSA but who wouldn’t admit to being commies.) (This doesn’t count libtard college students who might grow out of it once they got a real job and started accumulating wealth through their own work.) Every one of them seemed to think that he’d be among the decision makers if the US switched over to an openly communist system. Not one of these intellectuals seemed to realized that they’d be the first against the wall.