Socialism not only makes people worse off, it also makes them worse

The Capitalist Manifesto: Socialism not only makes people worse off, it also makes them worse

Capitalism has created more prosperity and progress for more people than any system in human history. On the 30th anniversary of the official end of the Soviet Union, join the National Post and Financial Post in a series saluting the unfashionable yet awesome power of the free-market system.

I suggest everyone read this, especially those who are all for socialism.

Socialists often castigate capitalism for promoting greed, when in reality, greed and envy are at the heart of the socialist system. “I have never understood,” Thomas Sowell wrote, “why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” Socialists insist that they are entitled to a “fair share” of other people’s money, but why any share greater than zero is fair, they fail to explain. Nor do socialists generally say what share they would consider fair, as it seems that whatever the share, they want more — even when top earners pay a marginal income tax rate of more than 50 per cent, as they currently do in all but two provinces.

Exactly.

The capitalist system promotes co-operation: in order to earn profits, businesses must make, both to workers and to customers, better offers than they receive anywhere else, or else risk losing them to competitors. People are free to choose, under the capitalist system, what to buy and sell, from where, and at what price. By contrast, the top-down control of socialism unfailingly promotes disorder. The “man of system,” as Adam Smith called the conceited central planner, “seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.” But people aren’t chess pieces, and forcing them in a direction they did not choose — for example, by dictating how they must spend their money, or what industries they must work in — causes society to be miserable and, as Smith said, “at all times in the highest degree of disorder.”

We are individuals, not NPCs.

Enamoured by their top-down economic and social designs, and convinced of their righteousness, socialists are overwhelmingly intolerant of diversity, hostile toward individual choice, and close-minded to ideas not their own.

But that is what socialists/communists want.  NPC’s to follow their dictates/dictatorships.

Socialism leads invariably to less freedom, more misery, and a society where people are not only worse off, but worse.

Hello Venezuela!  Hello Dem’s reimagining of america.