socialism: where everybody wins but nobody wins the lottery

Ok, so this whole life, liberty and property thing. These words of John Locke sound good on paper but lets look at the context. John Locke was a well-to-do-rich-guy in 16^th century England. So of coarse he is going to be a liberal. It’s easy to say “life, liberty and property” and to say that everybody is equal. But who exactly is equal? On the first page of the John Locke packet it says something along the lines of a state also of equality, where all power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, none having more than another only among those of the same species and rank born with the same advantages. When he says “species and rank” does he mean humans? Or just rich white dudes like him? Certainly not women in 16^th century England. “But it’s the general idea” a libertarian would say. Well I think the general idea stinks. Its basically just a rich guy saying “I have money but I want to be allowed to have as much as possible if not all of it” I think life liberty and property are good moral principles but not how a society should be run.

Just like 16^th century England, we have the dirt poor and the Richie Rich. If you gave everyone the ability to collect as much money as they can its already not fair. Its like a man throwing gold coins off a balcony. A hundred people are underneath the balcony two people have one arm and one person has two arms. Everyone else has no arms. The guy with two arms is obviously going to collect the most coins even if the no armed people were there, they still had the “opportunity” to pick up those coins DIDN’T THEY ? I feel like the above scenario is libertarianism in a nutshell.

That’s why I’m all for socialism. It’s a scenario where everybody wins, but nobody wins the lottery. Oh that’s good. That should be the slogan for socialism. That’s why I like Carl Marx because he basically said that with libertarianism people would get to rich and it would be uneven and socialism was the way to go and I totally agree. I think that libertarianism sounds good in theory, but in practice socialism works pretty well. Just ask Sweden.

Although these opinions don’t correlate directly to the principles from my other blog I think I could expand on them. My principles on passion and confidence could go hand in hand with socialism. For example if we had a socialist society everyone could do what he or she were passionate about and they could be confident they were doing a good job because they are fueled by passion rather than MONEY.  Even if they weren’t passionate about their job, they would have the free time to do the things that make them happy. Like rock climbing or knitting or reading or even traveling the world.

I think this would be a wonderful way to live and also solar roadways.