Reply #35: The difference is [View All]

[Yupster]

that on a small scale, each person can see the results of their hard work.

On the large scale though, the person who works hard and works not at all each get the same, and soon the person who works hard notes that if he takes it easy there won't be any noticable difference in production either. When production spirals down, the state uses force to try to get work moving.

Theoretically the answer to this is the cration of "Communist Man" who works not for himself but for the good of society.

This all seemed so reasonable and doable in college, but once I got some real jobs, it seemed pretty lame. That's probably why college professors are about the only people left in the world who believe in it. A relative of mine is still a professor who is a true believer. He's kind of a Peter Pan story. Went from student to grad student to grad assistant to lecturer to assistant professor to tenured professor all without ever leaving campus. Reminds me of Peter Pan still fighting Captain Hook when the rest of us lost boys have grown up.