(02-08-2020 09:45 PM)banker Wrote:  Well, if you could eliminate human nature, socialism would be great. Everybody wakes up at 6:00, works all day at a craft, and everybody just gets everything they need in exchange for their labor and production. The only excuse not to produce something of value is complete physical or mental incapacity. Everyone is happy having no more, or no less, than anyone else because everyone is working hard, no one any less than the others.

And that's about as many impossible things as I can cram in to one paragraph.

The real issues are they you need someone to oversee and administer the system, and those folks will always corrupt it for their own gain. On the flip side, you will have those that refuse to produce and yet are still given an equal share of the fruits of labor. Seeing this, other will become disenchanted and overall production will begin to fall leading to a declining quality of life for all, except those overseeing things who now stick out even more with what is a comparative opulent life. This makes the masses angry, there is eventually an uprising, which leads to the kind overseers releasing the military on the populace. Viola, a dictatorship emerges.