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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Anyway, I thought that your question was a sincere request for information, rather then being merely an opening for you to inject your political rant in favor of Obama...
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Your argument is purely based on what the US has become. The capitalism that has driven the US has developed the East and the West to great wealth, leaving a vast, agricultural void in between. Your arguments for why socialism was never founded are flawed, since if the US was a socialist state, then central government would have much less power, overseeing mainly staple national industries, like transport, health care, agriculture, leaving local needs down to individual state 'governments'. People would take much more interest in their local elections since these goverments or councils would be the ones controlling their region, and growth would be much more uniform, not east/west. Ivy league universites would not exist and education would be probably spread between local/national governance.
But yeah, the idea of someone working their ass off to develop an amazingly successful company to benefit the good of the people rather than lining his bank account is, well, unthinkable.
Greed and self-worth are not compatible with a socialistic way of life.