You have everything you need to live a dignified life…. Oh… except for self esteem and moral agency…. And because central planning can’t solve the calculation problem…. You won’t even have the ‘things’ the materialists think are the source of human dignity.
Socialism truly sucks. And it sucks because it preaches vice, incentivizes the worst within us, and dehumanizes us all.
THEO VON: “Will you define socialism for us?”
MAMDANI: “Socialism, to me, means that you will have WHATEVER YOU NEED to live a dignified life, and that it is the GOVERNMENT’S JOB to deliver on that.”
I’ve heard a line like that before. It came from a famous book, and it was describing the highest stage of communism.