Thanks for that post. That is what I remember from taking the tour at Jamestown. We had a similar story here in California. A utopian group wanted to build a community among the Sequoias and earn their money by building a toll road and attracting tourists. They were not roadbuilders, they were upper middle class. Since it was socialist, they kept expecting somebody else was getting the work done. Soon, they were begging their relatives to send them money and supplies, as they were going hungry. The enterprise folded, of course.
Capitalism isn’t easy but it gets the job done.
I was having an argument with a socialist once who insisted that man had an inherent need to work. I corrected him by saying that man had an inherent need to be rewarded for his work. If tasked with cutting down a tree and given the choice of a hand saw versus a chain saw, a man will choose the chain saw every time, minimizing the amount of work invested and putting to rest the lie of his inherent need to work.
For his reward (i.e. having the tree cut down), the reward is much greater for the amount of work invested utilizing the chain saw as opposed to the hand saw. Yet this socialist really believed that the hand saw was the better option for the good of society.
Socialism is madness.