Wrong. People will always have their fists.
The hardcore Commies in this thread keep chanting a very basic myth about human nature: that, given true equality and freedom, people will be inclined to help each other for their own benefit, and that a true socialist society will therefore evolve naturally.
You guys could only be more brain-explodingly wrong if you went "2 + 2 = 6,137,285". Actually, I can't even be sure of that, because it's almost statistically certain that somewhere in the universe exists a sentient race whose written language uses symbols that look exactly like "6,137,285" to represent the number four, so how about if I just say you're brain-explodingly wrong and leave it at that.
I already brought up the Milgram guy, who disproved this myth about human nature in his experiments. I shouldn't have even had to bring him up, because you can see a very clear picture of the ugly side of human nature just by picking up a damn newspaper. But it goes further than that. The thing all you Communist wingnuts are ignoring is that the incentive to work together and help each other
already exists. Even here in this cruel and heartless capitalist world. Why the bleeding HELL do you think firemen were running INTO the World Trade Center towers
WHILE THE GODDAMN TOWERS WERE ON FIRE???? Christ.
A just-starting-out doctor makes about as much as a waiter. Policemen risk their lives every day for paychecks a lot smaller than you would expect. A garbage collector makes more than a teacher. And here's a capper: Americans spend five to ten times as much money on charitable donations as they do on spectator sports.
There's a whole lot of human decency out there, but you knuckleheads can't see it. Or maybe you were just hoping I wouldn't point it out because it throws a monkey-wrench in your whole religion. The incentive to work together and help one's fellow man is already there, and countless people act on that incentive every day. Yet a socialist society is not developing.......
.....and that's the reason why. You just said it yourself--your ideal society is less productive. Humans want
more, not
less. In any of a billion other thread everywhere on the Web, you can always find millions of posters demading more. More government bennies, more work on protecting the environment, more work on eliminating AIDS, blah blah blah blah blah. So guess what, Einstein, those other people are going to make rude gestures at you, throw you out the door headfirst, and build themselves a society that does provide more.
Edit: Yeah, I know--you said "
may not be as productive" rather than "
is not as productive". Boo hoo.