Whats wrong with socialism?

proletariat2
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:32:55 +0000

Silly argument, no incentives can ever trump greed



First of all, just to nitpick:
I’m sure you didn’t mean greed to be the incentive. Did you mean money, or property, or something?
Well, biologically, sex is arguably the ultimate incentive. Some radicals (not necessarily communists - some were religious radicals) have supported societies with complex marriage, in which everyone in the community was “married” in some sense to everyone else. Naturally, this system would have to be tied to some kind of economic system that would support it.

But like romani said, greed is not universal. Look at the San in southern Africa. Not to perpetuate the myth of the noble savage, but many societies like that are fairly peaceful and lack much of the greed we find here in the Western world, for better or for worse.