Originally Posted by Mobile 155

In every human society there are type A personalities and type B personalities. There are successful people and their are people who fail. But even if there were some magic government that tried to play Robin Hood they would have to make those who have been called greedy unhappy to make those that aren't happy. And no one will govern if there is no authority over others to do that governing. No one will enforce for that government if they aren't rewarded and given authority to enforce. So you get back to those who can will achieve and gain some happyness and those who can't who settle for a different happyness.

It is the one glairing flaw in a total socialistic government. At some point half of the people will be working to support the other half. It is just how people are. look at just about any primitive culture we can study. The guy that had two stone axes and two spears was better off than someone that only had one. The guy with one tended to feel the guy with two was rich and living to excess. How was happier? In the Navajo culture sheep were a status symbol and some families had massive flocks. The US government came in and limited the number of sheep, including killing off some of them, and I can promise you that even if it made the status more equal it didn't make the people that lost the sheep happy. It didn't make the people that didn't have the sheep in the first place any happier either.

Just my opinion. But I don't think anyone can put flesh on the idea and explain how it could work and that the government could support itself and conduct commerce with other governments.