The reason socialism has never worked, and never will, is because people have no idea what to do.


So someone has to


1) figure out for them what to do, and

2) get them to do it.


But, by definition, there is no way of getting them to do it by paying them - because the worker is never given a means to communicate what he wants in return!


So with no means of discovering (and disseminating) what an individual wants - whereby his cooperation could be induced - the community (meaning the coercive authority in whom they have vested coercive powers) has no option but to tell someone "You're going to do this, and take what you get, and like it."


The only reason it cannot accurately be termed "exploitation" is because, for it to be so, somebody somewhere would actually have to somehow get what he wants at the end of all the misery. And apart from a few elites for a brief period, that never happens.


eLROY