Socialism hasn’t worked since 2 tribes tried to live together. It requires a top down approach, someone in charge deciding who gets what and how much everyone else has to contribute. That might work when you had everyone related in a tribe, a feeling that you were all in it together, But once 2 or more tribes try to live in one civilization, and the feeling that the top man was not looking out for your interest, resentment set in. People start to worry that they are not getting their fair share, or they are contributing more than other. Everything falls apart. It is at that point that capitalism and the markets take over, obtaining what you want and need based upon what you can pay for, earning things based upon the value of your labors. The markets are non-judgmental, or at least should be. Once you start introducing monopolies, or insider preferences, or discriminations, favoritism, and old-boy networks then again people feel slighted, but at least under capitalism, they can set up their own systems and beat the game.
The People demonstrating in the “Occupy Wall Street” gatherings fail to realize this. Like a lot of the left, they see what they want, free stuff, equality of results, not equality of opportunity. Etc. but to give to one you must take away from another. Who decides? If it is other than the market forces, then their will be resentment, and no incentive to produce.
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