07-24-2016, 08:29 PM
(07-24-2016, 01:04 PM)McC Wrote: Pretty sure it is. That everyone should live the same, even if it means the successful foot the bill. The only thing guaranteed is equal opportunity. Equal results are not.
(07-24-2016, 01:12 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Socialism requires the means of production be owned by the people. A goal of socialism may be the part you bolded, but it can also be a goal in a mixed market economy.
(07-24-2016, 01:21 PM)McC Wrote: That's right. I remember it from Seinfeld.
Well, I see this got ironed out while I was playing with my niece. But yeah, what Americans incorrectly think is socialism, isn't. What you were describing McC, comes about by the use of social programs which some people look at and go "social and socialism, all the same!" In truth, though, it seems any attempt to regulate the market is met with cries of socialism. But a regulated market is not a socialism.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
