You fundamentally fail to understand what socialism is, BK.
I'd say "don't make me laugh", but that would be a lie. I did. Because I'm damn near the only guy on this entire web site who
does understand socialism. Socialism is public ownership of the means of production.
And, it's BC, not BK. Unless you meant BasketKase?
I remember watching Comic Relief a few years ago, and one of the pieces they showed as an elderly African man getting a concrete floor in his shack. It was the first real floor he'd ever had in his life, and he was overjoyed to get it.
Yippee, tears of indifference. Now let me tell you how
my family did it. The house I would come to call home my entire life was a fixer-upper. When we moved in, it was kind of a mess. We poured our own concrete. We retiled the bathrooms. We redid the living room carpet.
We did it, on our own nickel. And no, we were not rich.
Here's the problem with charity. You can give somebody a concrete floor or a new car or a new house or something, but who's going to maintain it? A concrete floor will probably last forever, as far as I know, but most other things don't. When you give free soup to the hungry, you feed them once. Once the soup is eaten, nothing improves--they are still homeless and eight hours later they'll be hungry again. What you need to do is get them employed, so they can provide food (and shelter) to themselves; then they no longer depend on the government for anything. That's how you improve the human condition:
people have to produce stuff. Charity doesn't.
Because I only make $10,000 a year, jackass.
Bring it, Cheeseboy.
Ten grand a year? You think that absolves you?? You make FIVE TIMES AS MUCH as the average Joe in North Korea. Compared to them, you are
RICH. And a number of your compatriots have said, in this thread, "it's all relative". If that's true (I don't think it is, but a bunch of your friends in this thread do), then you have a responsibility and you are neglecting it.
Of course, that's all assuming you actually make $10,000 a year. This is the Internet, and you could be Bernie Madoff for all I know (do they give you ethernet access in prison?
)