4 Sep 2022 12:31 am
If the daughter is required to clean the living room, and her siblings are assigned to clean other rooms in the house where they all live, that is functional socialism. If they all refuse to clean anything and the house degenerates into a filthy hovel for lack of human cooperation (self absorbed greed and individualism), that is capitalism corrupting a family unit.LibDave » 04 Sep 2022, 12:20 am » wrote: ↑ oes not matter who does the work, everyone gets equal pay. As the tears welled up in her eyes I told her, well tomorrow I will pay 20$ to have the bathrooms cleaned. So if one of your siblings cleans the bathrooms you will get another 4$. So if they all apply themselves as you have you will benefit. "Who wants to clean the bathroom tomorrow?" Crickets! I of course then paid her the 20$. But they never forgot what socialism is and why it doesn't work. I explained to her, you think socialism is bad when you're dealing with just the size of your family? Imagine how little you would have gotten if I split it just among the 200 people in the neighborhood. Any attempt to increase your earnings would have netted you 10 cents. And what about at the municipal or national level. Under socialism there is no hope. Nothing but despair. No amount of effort on your part to improve your lot in life results in more than a 1000th of a penny's worth of reward. It definitely does fail with scale very quickly.