User blog comment:Special Elf Friend/Milton Friedman on Capitalism/@comment-25012056-20170211020941/@comment-25131077-20170214004433

If you really think socialism would work look up the history of the Kibbutz. That was started democratically and never abused the system. But it only lasted a generation before parents wanted their kids to live with them(imagine that!) and people started to want to own their own things.

Look at it this way. If everyone was paid the same no matter how hard they worked then the lazy wouldn't and even the industrious would slow down because no matter how hard they worked they would never get any more... "Their(Socialism's) division kills production. Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made by the butcher which kills that which it destroys...Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it."-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

For you guys wanting to learn more about the history of socialism, PBS did a great documentary called "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism" (Though where they got the idea that it has fallen I have no idea...) It covers socialistic attempts in Russia, China, Tanzania, Israel, America, and England.