In socialism, there are people that pay INTO the system and people who get PAID by the system. If everything is "free", then the incentive is NOT to work because you will get it for free regardless. Then when there are more takers than givers, the government can't pay for the "free" things. So they say "Hey. You can work but are choosing not to. So either work or lose your welfare." So then this person is being forced to work AND to pay INTO the system. That is tryanny. Its a soft way of making people work for someone else.
Socialism can work if, ideally, everyone is working towards the same goal, with the same motivations, with the same ethics, each fulfilling a necessary role.
I say "ideally" because not everyone shares the same goal, with the same motivations, with the same ethics, each fulfilling a necessary role. That's just not the way humans work. So eventually the system has to break down when those that share the same goals, motivations and ethics can no longer produce enough to sate those with unethical goals and motivations who have been able to game the system for their own benefit.
When someone starts an argument with "if only everyone would...." and ends it with "....the plan will work", stop right there! That's a plan doomed to failure because not everyone will and therefore the plan won't work. That's the problem with socialism.
In socialism, there are people that pay INTO the system and people who get PAID by the system. If everything is "free", then the incentive is NOT to work because you will get it for free regardless. Then when there are more takers than givers, the government can't pay for the "free" things. So they say "Hey. You can work but are choosing not to. So either work or lose your welfare." So then this person is being forced to work AND to pay INTO the system. That is tryanny. Its a soft way of making people work for someone else.
It's a bit more complicated than that, I believe.
Socialism can work if, ideally, everyone is working towards the same goal, with the same motivations, with the same ethics, each fulfilling a necessary role.
I say "ideally" because not everyone shares the same goal, with the same motivations, with the same ethics, each fulfilling a necessary role. That's just not the way humans work. So eventually the system has to break down when those that share the same goals, motivations and ethics can no longer produce enough to sate those with unethical goals and motivations who have been able to game the system for their own benefit.
When someone starts an argument with "if only everyone would...." and ends it with "....the plan will work", stop right there! That's a plan doomed to failure because not everyone will and therefore the plan won't work. That's the problem with socialism.
And these leftists think that themselves are not "evil"