And Obama and Progressives don't believe Socialism is selfish? - Granite Grok

And Obama and Progressives don’t believe Socialism is selfish?

Kiddy Socialism: Obama Redistributes LegosAnd this is the system that Obama and the Progressives want us to “progress” towards?

The game was simple enough. Each participant was asked to throw a die 40 times and record each roll on a piece of paper. A higher overall tally earned a bigger payoff. Before each roll, players had to commit themselves to write down the number that was on either the top or the bottom side of the die. However, they did not have to tell anyone which side they had chosen, which made it easy to cheat by rolling the die first and then pretending that they had selected the side with the highest number. If they picked the top and then rolled a two, for example, they would have an incentive to claim—falsely—that they had chosen the bottom, which would be a five.

Honest participants would be expected to roll ones, twos and threes as often as fours, fives and sixes. But that did not happen: the sheets handed in had a suspiciously large share of high numbers, suggesting many players had cheated.

After finishing the game, the players had to fill in a form that asked their age and the part of Germany where they had lived in different decades. The authors found that, on average, those who had East German roots cheated twice as much as those who had grown up in West Germany under capitalism.

They also looked at how much time people had spent in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The longer the participants had been exposed to socialism, the greater the likelihood that they would claim improbable numbers of high rolls.

I’ve been saying this for years: Socialism is selfish.  Why?  If you have to beg to Government for more, it’s always a case of having to demand more to get what you were hoping for in the first place.  Capitalism, and free markets, says that success happens by giving value to those that purchase your products.  Instead of demanding and being selfish about it what is received, the more you give in value, the more you receive in return.  Demanding vs earning.  Selfishness vs selflessness.  Socialism is, at the individual level no matter how “dressed up” the description of “we all in this together”, a zero sum game so one has to be selfish “to get mine”.  Capitalism, at the individual level, is simply serving and fulfilling other peoples’ needs – and with serving, there is no selfishness.  Socialism is force by government; capitalism is voluntary between individuals

 

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