Quote from: Walter Rothbard on February 20, 2013, 04:30:14 PM

Quote from: Aahzman on February 20, 2013, 02:14:39 PM

Well, some aspects of socialism aren't "bad" in and of themselves, but too often socialism is equated with communism, which sparks the democracy fire in us western-culture children. :-)

Socialism and/or communism are bad insomuch as they are implemented with the initiation of force. If you implement them without force, they are fine. In other words, if you give people the right to opt out (analogous to the way Bitcoin doesn't force anybody to use Bitcoin), then there's nothing wrong. Most families practice socialism internally to some extent, for example, but families typically don't force people to be members, at least after a certain age.

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If Joe and I go to work in the fields picking peppers at $5 a bushel, and I bust my ass and pick 40 bushels of peppers, while Joe fucks the dog all day and only picks 10 bushels of peppers, yet at the end of the day, the bossman averages it out and pays us each for 25 bushels of peppers, how is that fair? I did $200 worth of work, while Joe only did $50 worth of work, yet we end up each being paid $125?

That's still fair because it's the bossman's peppers and he can do whatever he wants with them, and you can go work somewhere else. Tongue

LoL. Well, I suppose that's one way to look at it. In a real socialist paradise, Joe and the bossman would both end up on the bad side of an icepick in the ear some dark and stormy night.