SOCIALISM

Before I get into a few of the (non-mathematical) reasons that I believe socialism will never work... do me a favor and check out this link:  WHY SOCIALISM FAILS

I'm pretty sure the story is fictional-- albeit hypothetically accurate.  The text to the right of the story was written by a man named Chris, and I think it's worth reading.  The first two paragraphs alone make some good points:

"America used to be about equal opportunity, not the equal redistribution of wealth. The second you have a government which concerns itself with wealth redistribution is the second your government turns into a tool of corporate conquest and privilege [...] 

Freedom on the other hand means a completely voluntarist society in which all services are provided by the free market based off actual demand. To put it another way, imagine if no one payed any taxes and there was no warfare/welfare state wasting trillions ... The society would be easily 5-10 times wealthier overall. The poor would be making 100k a year and we'd hear socialists griping even then about the evils of capitalism because the rich are making 100 billion."

I haven't been alive for very long, so I definitely can't pinpoint the time during which the economy became just another "system" for our dear representatives to manipulate.  Knowing that a bunch of lawyers politicians are in Congress right now deciding what new laws and taxes will "get our country on the right track" makes me more nauseous than my pregnancy hormones.  As a society, we have been conditioned to think that Congressional intervention is the answer for everything... when in actuality, it's barely the answer for anything.  It's extremely problematic that many of us think that these lawyers, who have been writing bad laws for over a century, will come anywhere close to taxing an economy appropriately.  How many business classes has the average Congressman taken, I wonder?

Not only are our lawmakers in over their heads, but true Socialism is impossible to force upon a society of people in the first place.  It is definitely impossible to force upon an economy of people.   And as population increases, the more definite it is that Socialism will fail.  

In order for Socialism to be successful, it has to spontaneously manifest itself after a huge awakening among all of mankind.  It will "just happen" after we are already living in Utopia.  Only then will we love our neighbors just as much as we love and trust ourselves, our friends, and our families.  

Even the most generous people I know don't love their "neighbors" (i.e. the person next door; a stranger in Wyoming) as much as they love themselves or their families.  I mean, I consider myself a pretty generous person.... but, when the world ends...  the truth is that Daniel, Dylan, and I will be sharing our last roll of toilet paper with ourselves, and not with you.  That's just the way the cookie crumbles.

SIX REASONS I KNOW HUMANS AREN'T READY TO BE "SOCIALISTS"

1. I feel elated when someone lets me merge ahead of them on the highway. 

2. At Six Flags, I gotta get all crazy just to keep teenage line-cutters from taking advantage of me.

3. Two words: The Titanic.

4. There is almost always pee on the seat in a woman's public restroom.  WHO SQUATS IN A BATHROOM BECAUSE THEY DON'T TRUST OTHER PEOPLE'S ASSES, AND THEN LEAVES THEIR OWN PEE ON THE G.D. SEAT?  A lot of women, apparently.  And plenty of times, there is also excrement in left behind in the bowl... even when the toilet works just fine.

5. If we were on a plane that crashed in the freezing cold Andes mountains, and I eventually died, you would eat my corpse to survive.

6.  All homes and cars come have locks in the doors as a standard feature.  I think it has something to do with humans not trusting each other.

I thought these were interesting.  They sound kind of creepy, but they're not so bad.
I wonder how "society" would enforce these commandments?  Do cowards go socialist Hell?