Thoughts on socialism

Socialism is one of those things that sounds great as a broad idea but once you start to get into the nitty gritty details falls apart pretty quickly.


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The biggest problem with socialism is that for it to work you need complete buy in.

Even if a small number of people in a society aren't completely sold on it it stops working.

Which is why for a socialist society to work you would need to start with the children.

You would need to start, in the nicest possible sense of the word, indoctrinating them at a young age so that once they become adults they couldn't conceive of society behaving in any other way.

And for those who indoctrination didn't work on, you would also need to be able to kick them out.

As I suggested earlier, it only takes a small number of people putting themselves ahead of society for socialism to break down, so when someone starts showing those signs you would need to remove them from society.

Which is one of the details that's makes socialism probably unworkable.

But doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try.

Does it?