-=> Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 MP> When I was in college, the people who most loudly proclaimed
  > that they were "Democrats" were all social/communists.

 RM> They always used to say that young people were Liberals and,
 RM> as they got older, turned into Conservatives..

 RM> It's been said (arguably) that Communism is the best form of government
 RM> but the problem is it relies on total honesty for it to work properly
 RM> so, knowing humans, it's never going to work.
 RM> Pretty much all communist countries have a VERY weathy small upper
 RM> class and a very poor everyone else in a system where everyone is
 RM> supposed to, in theory, share everything equally.

 RM> So, in the end, if working hard gets you nothing extra then the only
 RM> way to beat the system is to do as little work as you can possibly
 RM> get away with, then you make the same as your neighbour does while
 RM> doing less work than they do. Commie countries aren't usually well
 RM> known for their high production output..

It's not new, and I didn't come up with it, but there's the story about
the professor who wanted to PROVE to his 'young adult class' that
socialism was NOT the way to go.

So he started taking the highest grade in the class and taking points
off and giving to the lowest, then next highest to next lowest, etc.
Until everyone had the same grade.

Well it didn't take long for people to realize they'd get the same
thing even if they didn't do the work, so they stopped working. But
then NO ONE was doing ANY work so there was no 'points' to go around.



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