Economics #2

Socialism wouldn't work because people aren't trustworthy. Everyone sins, lies and takes short cuts. Being a socialist nation would require everyone and everything to be perfect and have no faults basically. Maybe in a society the Stepford Wives socialism would work but here on earth where there is so much sin and evil, people can not be trusted. Humans are always looking out for themselves and not their neighbors so in a socialist society where everyone worked evenly and for their community, people would fail. Lazy average people would live off everyone else like welfare or the government would live off them. People would not work or work the easiest jobs for the bare minimum while other people would excel to be doctors or scientists and would work more than the group of lazy people. If for some reason all people decided to pick up the slack and work harder than they are today begging on the streets, the government and other nations would pull the system out of place. The government is not made up of perfect people and is certainly corrupt and in one way or another they would cheat the system as well. Having access to all money homes and food, they would steal from society and use more than they ought. Other nations would see our socialist society and get more from us or cheat us out of our perfect happy society and products. If the state owned everything, the people who were behind the state would distribute more or less to friends and enemies and would sit on other important things to better themselves. Overall, because man is sinful, socialism could never work because of the greed in every human being.