Wednesday, May 2, 2012

UTT - Blog Post 21


Mark and Sarah agree that the government should do more to redistribute wealth evenly and Mark went on to say that the State should own everything so people could learn to share everything equally.  
Why do you think socialism doesn't work?  Due Wednesday, May 2nd by midnight.
Bonus 5 points for the best video link you send me on this topic.

            You know, this may not be the answer that you’re looking for, but, technically speaking, Socialism is a perfect system. It would create a perfect system on earth if it could be implemented like it has been created in concept. Of course, that is assuming one completely fatal flaw: Humanity is basically good. We aren’t.
        Because we, as Christians, know that all of humanity has fallen and has been contaminated by sin, we can never truly make the decisions that are necessary to ensure the success of socialism. Humanity is far too self-focused and personally oriented to ever be able to make a community system work. That’s why capitalism is so successful—it allows us to fuel our own selfish desires with competition to become the best and the most successful, and it works. Socialism can’t match that because it appeals too much to basic human virtue rather than our greed and want for more.
        So, to sum it up, socialism would be the perfect system in a perfect world. We aren’t in a perfect world and we aren’t perfect people, so a perfect system would be essentially flawed, as any attempt at socialism today surely is. That’s why I believe socialism can never work, plain and simple.

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