I’m pretty free market. I’m also of the mind that the best incentives are the ones that you remember your dad teaching you or that you teach your kids. Hard work, eat your vegetables, save your money, do your homework….stuff like that.
I like to think that most America teaches these things to their kids. And to the extent that some of us are better or worse, I guess that’s okay. But the idea is the same. This is a place where, if you work hard enough, you can have anything you want. Which, I’ve always thought the inverse were then true as well. This is a place where if you DON’T work hard enough, you can’t have anything you want.
So, I don’t like socialism. Either as a way to teach our kids how to live or as an economic system where we organize our society.
But we are.