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An interesting example :
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equaliser. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would 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. But, 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 3rd test rolled around the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else. All failed to their great surprise and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away; no one will try or succeed ------- thoughts? |
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All hail the Moyesiah
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Under/over 15 pages on this thread by 3pm?
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Source please LT or I shall assume this "socialist class experiment" is a work of fiction someone wrote on Facebook ![]() |
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A theory based in fiction not fact.
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Yes it is Failed
Doctrine. That's why Blair was a Neo Conservative. |
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Sorry..... a theory based on lazy kids?
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I think it#s like, an analogy, Marshy. Everyone got the same no matter how hard they worked. Geddit?
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Deny, Defend, Depose.
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Coming up tomorrow on facebook parables, we'll be putting Leninism to the test with the aid of some goldfish.
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Piss orf.
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Wern't that Jones town lot a bunch of socialists.
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![]() Also it doesn't even make sense as a cautionary tale for communism (I'm going to call it communism because the conflation of communism and socialism is an annoying Americanism) because what would actually happen after the "D grade" test is that the class would get a scare and - presuming they DO care about failing - would up their game on the next test, not just give in to failure, and would probably end up settling in a "C's-for-everyone" scenario over time. Which is a perfectly valid and more accurate allegory for the dangers of communism - flat mediocrity, not critical failure. No need to screech about "Everyone getting an F!!!" ... that's not what happens. |
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Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour.
Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk. Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Labour: You have 2 cows. One looks a little jewish so you sell that. The other one you send to a private farm to be better brought up whilst arguing that state farms are the way forward. |
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This Witch doesn't burn
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Teach your kids about socialism by making them clean the bathroom then, pay them 10 dollars, take 7 of those dollars and give those seven dollars to their sibling who didn't work I bet your child won't be a socialist for long.
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Coming up tomorrow an interesting example of a successful doctrine.
We give one student the rights to a medication that the rest of the students need to stay alive, the student is charging Ł1000 a month for the medication. The other students can't afford it and they all die.
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This Witch doesn't burn
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You probably don't understand it, Marshy x
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Yes it's fairly obvious that it was written by some twat on facebook.
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I like that one LOL...
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But then, that mostly applies to Capitalist systems too... most get a B, C or D... an F if they get unlucky... and the professor's mates get an A++++++++++. |
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