When I was 18 or so and a super lefty, I went round to my friend's house and his teacher dad explained to me just in a few words why socialism doesn't work. I always had that to refer to and it helped me later. Maybe it's why I am here.
I called him out of the blue last year and thanked him. He was very gratified.
He said something nice to me. He said out of his son's friends, I was the one who had something about me. That's funny because out of all of them I was the deepest drinker of the socialist kool-aid.
Anyway, that is an affirming anecdote to say that you did a great job.
Great story. We never know when we influence others usually. I played a video of a second amendment speech for a kid and he was shocked about what the founders real purpose was. Cool to see the lightbulb go on.
It was nearly 30 years ago so I don't remember unfortunately.
It was structural so it would have been about incentives for adding to rather than taking from society. He's a chemist so he thinks about driving forces. It was a real sleeper of a red pill.
This is the thought process it led to.
Dependency and lack of autonomy are incentivised in a socialist society and excellence of service is actively disincentivised.
There is no choice of system to apply to either so no driving force to improve services by competition.
There is no competition for governance since you aren't supposed to vote with your feet to leave the system. You get the worst possible governance and enforcement - like the Stasi or the KGB
What you get is inevitably the worst service possible. Think of East German Trabants and apartment blocks and repression of the people.
Politics attracts the most power hungry people and there is no recourse or accountability to the public in Socialism / Communism. You get the worst leaders that the population can provide. If true globalism were to happen, you would end up with the worst leaders in the world and no competing system to keep them in check, since communism cannot allow a competing system.
When I was 18 or so and a super lefty, I went round to my friend's house and his teacher dad explained to me just in a few words why socialism doesn't work. I always had that to refer to and it helped me later. Maybe it's why I am here.
I called him out of the blue last year and thanked him. He was very gratified. He said something nice to me. He said out of his son's friends, I was the one who had something about me. That's funny because out of all of them I was the deepest drinker of the socialist kool-aid.
Anyway, that is an affirming anecdote to say that you did a great job.
Great story. We never know when we influence others usually. I played a video of a second amendment speech for a kid and he was shocked about what the founders real purpose was. Cool to see the lightbulb go on.
A second amendment speech? Do you remember what it was?
out of curiosity, what did he say? i could do with some pointers to stump socialist sympathisers
It was nearly 30 years ago so I don't remember unfortunately.
It was structural so it would have been about incentives for adding to rather than taking from society. He's a chemist so he thinks about driving forces. It was a real sleeper of a red pill.
This is the thought process it led to.
Dependency and lack of autonomy are incentivised in a socialist society and excellence of service is actively disincentivised.
There is no choice of system to apply to either so no driving force to improve services by competition.
There is no competition for governance since you aren't supposed to vote with your feet to leave the system. You get the worst possible governance and enforcement - like the Stasi or the KGB
What you get is inevitably the worst service possible. Think of East German Trabants and apartment blocks and repression of the people.
Politics attracts the most power hungry people and there is no recourse or accountability to the public in Socialism / Communism. You get the worst leaders that the population can provide. If true globalism were to happen, you would end up with the worst leaders in the world and no competing system to keep them in check, since communism cannot allow a competing system.
I'm sorry this isn't succint.