Yes, socialism doesn't work

If you are talking about hard socialism, no-private-property, central-planning socialism, then, yes, it hasn't worked. The state owning everything means the government leaders owning everything, which is the most extreme pay injustice, since everyone works, and creates the wealth. It is extreme wealth concentration, unjustly, and people's sense of justice opposes it, and then there is war between the govt and the people, which absorbs a lot of wealth and productivity, and destroys the nation.

As for soft socialism, govt trying to prevent the extremes of wealth and poverty caused by pure capitalism, all first-world states are soft socialist states, including USA. Which has led to fat bureaucracies suffocating productivity, and shovelling wealth, mostly to the lower middle class, not to the poor.

Capitalism is good for the invisible hand, automatically and sensitively adjusting supply and demand, far better than central planning can, but pure capitalism, as practised in the 19th century, led to extreme wealth and poverty, because of the many wideopen LEGAL THEFTS in the system [as well as the successful illegal thefts, like the Mafia]. In pure capitalism, there are many wideopen legal thefts, like pay for scarcity, which in one century, the 19th, caused such poverty that the market, the buyers, was drying up. Money had been sucked up into few hands, and there was little money in the markets for people to buy things. Pay for 10 day's work ranged from $1 to $1,000,000 in the 1880s in America. And America and every country in the first world took steps, and labour took steps, to reduce the extreme inequality, by unions, to give workers more power, by eg Henry Ford giving high wages, so workers could afford the cars, by govt interference in inequality, by graduated tax, social security, old age pensions, minimum wages etc. But these methods involve bureaucracy, which is ever-growing, and which now absorbs 40% of USA national wealth, and suffocates productivity with rules and regulations.

What I suggest is capitalism with a simple non-bureacratic way of preventing endlessly more extreme wealth and poverty, which obviously generates violence [endless growth of war, crime and weaponry]. That way we have the advantages of capitalism without the disadvantages of extreme inequality, evergrowing violence, suffocating bureaucracy, and everincreasing warmongering by the superrich and cannonfoddering of the underpaid. Call it democratic capitalism, call it justice capitalism, call it survival capitalism. Every empire has fallen due to ever-increasing inequality. Money is power, so extreme inequality of wealth is extreme inequality of power, tyranny-slavery, unliberty, which is what we had in Europe and what Americans were fleeing.

Liberty and justice for all. The most important justice is pay justice, equal pay for equal work, no pay for no work, no overpay and no underpay, everyone taking out of the social pool of wealth as much as they put in by their work. Because money is the joker good, good for just about everything, including power and social standing. We have many wideopen pays for no work [overpay, overpower, corruption, welldressed theft], which means work for no pay [underpay, wageslavery, slavery, powerlessness] for others. Which means evergrowing inequality, violence, brutality, war and weaponry. Murder is proportional to inequality.

The state built on injustice cannot stand, Roman saying. Every state and empire in history has fallen because of extreme inequality. In the world today, we have pay from 10,000th of average to 100,000 times average. 99% are underpaid.

The purpose of government is justice, James Madison.

When our fathers prevented entail [and primogeniture, and when they fixed clergy salaries], they though they had erected a bulwark [safety wall] against the money power that had killed Britain [and every other state and empire in history]. They forgot that money can combine, that a moneyed corporation is like the papacy, it never dies. Wendell Phillips.

Both Lincoln and Jefferson warned against the corporation.

We are free today [early 19th century] substantially, but the day will come when our Republic [the American nation] will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth [and political power, and govt, and the military] will be concentrated in the hands of the few. James Madison, founding father.

A US Senate committee in the 1950s reported that big business was more powerful than the US Govt. Eisenhower warned against the growing power of the military-industrial complex.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both, Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court judge.

The working people have been expoited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody, Henry Ford.

When we resist concentration of power, we are resisting the pwoers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties, Woodrow Wilson.

If there were but one person in the world, it is manifest that he could have no more wealth than he was able to make and to save. That is the natural order. Henry George, founder of the Single Tax societies in the early 20th century, author of Progress and poverty.

I needed the good will of the legislature of four states. I formed the legislature bodies with my own money. Jay Gould, getting $1,000,000 a day in the 1880s.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, Stanley Kubrick.

Now we have discovered war to be derived from the unlimited accumulation of wealth which is also the cause of almost all the evils in states, Plato.

When individuals get a lot of wealth, they often go a-warmongering, fomenting wars, and selling to both sides, making huge profits, because the products get blown up, and also cannonfoddering millions of people [soldiers and civilians] in the process. The League of Nations was founded to try to prevent warmongerers fomenting wars. When people find themselves working very hard and getting very little, they sometimes get mad, and turn to war or crime. For the poor, being in the army, risking being shot, but being fed and clothed, is often the best option. So both wealth and poverty, overpay and underpay, contribute to war.

Governments can do nothing, because they are held hostage by the superwealthy. Only the people are strong enough to oppose the superwealthy. The people have always been stronger than the superwealthy. Every empire, every plutocracy has fallen to the people, the underpaid. But the people are relying on government, and are doing nothing, are not taking responsibility. Democracy is rule by the people, but the people have abdicated responsibility to the governments, who are in the hands of the warmongering superwealthy. So overpay-underpay violence and weaponry will continue growing, till the atomic bombs are used. The superwealthy will use the bombs on the people attacking them, and then it will be all over for everyone.

The third world is at 51% of world wealth now, and growing rapidly in wealth and population. The superrich are selling weaponry to both sides. Conquering is a mug's game, because the plunderers get plundered by the plundered and the enslaved. This forces the superwealthy to raid the national wealth to defend themselves, and so increase the rage of the people against them. This is how every overwealth has fallen. And this time it will happen, over the next two or three decades, with bombs capable of killing everyone, putting up enough smoke to block out the sun, lower the temperature 25 degrees, three times colder than an iceage.

Unless the people move for pay justice.

Make everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased estates. This is just, because the private heir has done nothing to make that money, and everyone has done everything to make the workproducts that that money buys. This will gently, over two generations, make the super-overpay rain down on everyone, bring the 99% underpaid up towards $100,000 a year, and the overpaid down towards $100,000 a year.

This is simple, and doesn't need a big bureaucracy, just a small department to settle the estates and distribute the overpay electronically.

There is an even simpler method. But it is very unlikely that people will act responsibly, and think their way through to the reality of the present human situation, to the necessity and the enormous positive value for everyone of doing this. People will not grasp the danger till too late. We will be extinct. Already NATO are asking for the right to make pre-emptive nuclear strikes. First-world share of popluation is shrinking fast, to 2% of world population by 2100. Already depleted uranium has been used. Already, South America is starting to oppose the tyranny of USA.

As long as there are rich and poor, there will be growing war, as both sides throw everbigger weaponry. Pay up to 100,000 times the world average of $100,000 is absurd, madness. And against the sane principles of the founding fathers.

1% get 98% of world income, while doing 1% of the work.

A billion makes $100 million every year at 10%. A billion doubles at 10% every 7 years, multiplies by 1000 every 70 years. With no work at all by the owner. Therefore there is clearly extreme legal theft, pay for no work.

But since people cannot see even this super-extreme injustice, how can they see anything? People see superwealth, and instead of bringing it back down to justice, they try to climb up to it, or they settle for what they can get. Obviously wealth is power, and extreme overpay-underpay is overpower-underpower, tyranny-slavery, not democracy freedom peace survival order intelligence happiness safety friendliness, the good life.

Obviously individual contribution by own work is limited, not unlimited, so unlimited fortunes are unjust, which means the decline and fall of states and planets. No one wants fortunes to be limited, but they forget that unlimited fortunes means underpay for 99%.

Opening the gates to unlimited wealth for self is opening the gates to unlimited fortunes for others.

Unlimited overpay means unlimited underpay, because no one contributes unlimited amounts of wealth by their work. New technology has built-in scarcity, high demand and low supply, prices way above costs, till factories meet demand in maybe two decades.

People trust that common sense will prevail, and that they don't have to do anything. But has common sense prevailed for 3000 years? Tyranny, slavery, conquering, being conquered, every empire falling, ceaseless growth of war, crime and weaponry?

The golden rule is ironhard: don't hit people, they hit back! As doormats, people are totally unreliable.

Pay justice is the only escape hatch for homo sapiens, and after 3000 years of following pay injustice to super-super-extreme pay injustice, pay justice seems very strange, very foreign, very unlikely to be true or necessary.

People cannot believe in extinction, because it has never happened before.

We humans are sorcerer's apprentices, smart enough to get ourselves into giant technological trouble, unable to get ourselves out by common sense.

Head-in-the-sand we have lived and head-in-the-sand we will die.

Yet the way out is easy.