Quote Originally Posted by JakeMartinez
That's why I think we should be looking at this and thinking "How can we make this work?"

A lot of people, Golden Boy included, look at it and say "It'll never work".

Like I said, I'm a straight-up socialist. However, I'm perfectly willing to make compromises and hash out what'll be best for all of us. After all, isn't that the theory behind socialism?
Its not that it will not work. Ideally, you are desiring a system that rewards everyone in an equal manner. As i have proved before, everyone is not equal. Therefore rewarding everyone equally will create inefficiency because there is not a finite incentive to perform better than the average or accepted.

Fredrick Taylor observed something extraordinary in the early 20th century. He found that when workers are receiving equal pay, performing the same job, they will work only as hard as the least hard working employee. Reason be, they are not receiving any extra incentive to work harder than their equally compensated co-workers. Logically, at the end of the day someone who worked harder than the rest would be more fatigued, and will feel a lesser amount of gratitude when receiving compensation as time progresses. A continuation will have an effect on the long run productivity of this worker.

It is a matter of efficiency at the end of the day. Capitalism is more efficient than socialism. Unless you can prove otherwise, you must except this as fact.
GoldenBoy812 Reviewed by GoldenBoy812 on . Why is socialism so bad? Hello Everyone! I have been following the presidential race and the arguments in these forums for the past few weeks. One of the new issues is SOCIALISM. I lived in the United States for 17 years, but moved back to my home country of Finland a couple years ago. Finland is a Socialist Democracy. We have free health care, free education through your bachelor's degree (when you turn 18, the gov. also pays for 80% of your rent and grocery money(240â?¬/month), and allows you to take out Rating: 5