Today's crop of croppers earnestly believe the next blindfolded swing at the socialist piñata won't be totalitarian and won't dictate social behavior -their version of socialism will just be "nice". I may not be around to see it as, like you, I've got maybe a quarter century left on Earth - actuarily speaking. But the decline will be Hemingwayan - gradual at first, then sudden. When today's youth are in their dotage, they'll be telling their kids about the Good Old Days when middle class families had stand alone houses in neighborhoods, cell phones were ubiquitous, cheap and reliable, food was so cheap that obesity was a problem, people routinely lived into their 80s and hardly anybody complained of being cold all the time.
It's bizarre to me that socialists somehow think organizing a labor union is anything other than a free market activity. I suspect they don't know market theory at all - they view everything through the Marxist lens. The "capitalism" they imagine they are fighting is just as imaginary as the utopia they want to replace it with.
Has anyone told a young socialist that they are perfectly free to form a corporation structured according to Marxist principals, where the workers all own equal stake in the company and receive equal share of the profit? They should try it and see if it works, and leave everyone who doesn't want to do that alone.
Today's crop of croppers earnestly believe the next blindfolded swing at the socialist piñata won't be totalitarian and won't dictate social behavior -their version of socialism will just be "nice". I may not be around to see it as, like you, I've got maybe a quarter century left on Earth - actuarily speaking. But the decline will be Hemingwayan - gradual at first, then sudden. When today's youth are in their dotage, they'll be telling their kids about the Good Old Days when middle class families had stand alone houses in neighborhoods, cell phones were ubiquitous, cheap and reliable, food was so cheap that obesity was a problem, people routinely lived into their 80s and hardly anybody complained of being cold all the time.
The decline may mirror that of the entitlement programs. As you say, slow then cliff.
It's bizarre to me that socialists somehow think organizing a labor union is anything other than a free market activity. I suspect they don't know market theory at all - they view everything through the Marxist lens. The "capitalism" they imagine they are fighting is just as imaginary as the utopia they want to replace it with.
Has anyone told a young socialist that they are perfectly free to form a corporation structured according to Marxist principals, where the workers all own equal stake in the company and receive equal share of the profit? They should try it and see if it works, and leave everyone who doesn't want to do that alone.