Review: 'Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World' Inspiring Profile. He said, "The vision of the Left — and I think many conservatives underestimate this — is really a more attractive vision. The only reason for not believing in it is that it doesn’t work."

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[–]Jacinda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It depends on the culture.

In a high trust society such as Scandinavia, where people have a great deal in common and a reluctance to freeload, high expenditure on public goods works perfectly well.

I am sure in such societies the public control of the means of production would also work. Innovations such as the Internet and the World Wide Web were pioneered by public enterprise.

[–]Feldheld 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, it does not work even in Scandinavia. Did you miss the massive influx of parasitic migrants?

No matter what society, socialist policies always bring decline. Of course the decline isnt immediate so the stupid think "it works". It's usually spoiled people who think they can afford the luxury of stupid ideas like socialism so other stupid people get the impression of a correlation between "being rich" and "being socialist". But the causality isnt "become socialist -> get rich" but the other way round. It's the rich who become complacent and stupid enough to try socialism, until theyre not rich anymore.