Corruption is the other side of the socialist coin. You can’t have the one without the other.
Exactly. In what real world scenarios can you take a bunch of human beings - with our long track record of personal behavior - who have never run a business and have no concept of how markets work, put them in charge to decide, top down, top to bottom, what people can make, buy, and how they are to work and be compensated, and expect these same empowered few not to let it all go to their heads?
Pigs, milk, apples. Like clockwork.
Exactly. The foundational philosophy of socialism is that people who embrace it think they're going to get a bigger slice of the wealth-pie because they're more deserving. Socialism is thievery.
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It’s like the old joke: the fall didn’t kill him...it was the landing.
That was my immediate reaction, too. You cannot have socialism without complete top to bottom corruption and vice versa. They go hand-in-glove.
When the system cannot produce anything, the lowest level people have to make bribes to be able to buy any and all necessities of life. Corruption is thus woven into the very fabric of socialism.
The author and the “experts” he cites are very ignorant of real life.
That needs to be emphasized.
Total government direction of the economy gives tremendous, essentially unlimited, power to government decision makers. The socialist myth is that they are dedicated and incorruptible, but in fact, they are most likely to be self-interested and, corrupted by their power.
The downward spiral of unlimited corruption and removal of the rewards to effort naturally follows.
Why is there more wisdom on this site than on the republican side of congress?