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o_O.Q said:

i wouldn't say socialism is necessarily a plague, since we really should try to help people who are not well off in some way but it needs to be tempered with a respect for the rights of the individuals of a society, which a lot of socialists do not understand despite claiming they do

I would say that capitalism is a stepping stone for socialism. It's like a sort of transition period to obtain our post-scarcity economy to be able to subsidize our potential theoretical maximum production for as little labour as possible ...