|
AN economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich as well; a great equaliser.
The professor then said: “We will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.”
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D. No one was happy.
When the third test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, all failed and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.
These are possibly the five best sentences you will ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity;
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving;
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else;
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it;
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Painona,
Harare.
 |
Show/Hide comments
Show/Hide comment form
The above example,is not an example of socialistic principles...here is why.
While the group as a whole were given a combined grade average for test scores, they did not study or prepare for the test as a group. Each person did their studying independently. Under the concepts of socialism, the cla*s would have elected a leader, who would have then paired the best students with those who were the poorest, to help them better understand the materiel that they were to be tested on.In this way, all of the students would have reached their potential, and we, as a society, would have a far better graduating cla*s.
Socialism is a workers movement...where those who do the work, share in the benefits.