Read this. This is a truly enlightening post. This is the state of why socialism fails. Human nature is never taken into account when one aspires to an ideology such as socialism or capitalism. I'm for capitalism because it has been proven to have a positive outcome for most people.
Uh, guy, that's not what I said at all. Capitalism does NOT have a positive outcome for most people. In the US, 60% of us are living paycheck to paycheck. Most of us would be wiped out by a major medical emergency.
Capitalism is bad because it indulges the worst of human nature.
Capitalism worked okay for most white Americans* in the middle of the last century because it was modified by a government system that looked out for workers and workers rights. There was an all too breif period when Republicans and Democrats kind of agreed on this, starting with FDR and ending with Reagan. Then the GOP went full out Plutocracy and the Democrats went full out Welfare State, and here's where we are at.
(* of course, if you were a person of color in America, it generally still sucked overall.)
Aspiring to greatness will never work with socialism. It is a race to mediocrity and much, much worse. The poor will be poorer and the rich will be poor. There has to be control on the reins of capitalism because it leads to oligarchy. There is something to be said for a mix. Over time, as man has less and less labor because it is automated, it will be essential for the the country and world to move toward socialism. The rate at which it moves must controlled such that freedoms are not infringed upon with a totalitarian government control.
I'm not sure if this is true, either. What needs to happen is that we need to make sure that even menial service economy jobs STILL pay a living wage. They actually require more technical skill than something that can now be done by a machine, but they pay less. This is why you have Bernie. Kids go to college for 4 years, get their degree, and then find themselves working a menial job.