A Socialist View from Outside the Box

Give a man a fish and he will eat it. Show a man how to catch a fish and he will eat for a lifetime.  An analogy I have a strong belief in and try to live by.

If we keep giving people things, they will expect more of the same on an ongoing basis. There is no option to learn to support themselves. To succeed at anything people must first learn to stand on their own 2 feet. A baby must crawl before it can walk.

But one line of things the socially minded people DO need to be given in order to have the motivation to WANT to begin to support themselves, is respect, dignity and equality.

Capitalists (i.e. Money spinners, Corporation Directors, CEO’s) usually think of themselves as the top of the supply chain. “People” to a corporation are the tools that expand the corporations wealth. These “People” are typically paid at the industry minimum rate and if they complain, a loophole is found to retire them to a new money spinner (AKA… You’re Fired).