The time was what it was; the people in it were making the decisions that were best for them at the time. If you're going to play the socialism card, why not play the entire hand? The 100 million people of the past six generations were conned and only you see the truth?
Nobody planned a central economy here; nobody assigned you the task of bricklayer because your town needed bricklaying and you were available no matter how smart or strong you were; nobody decided what jobs were surplus and what would be paid for the job that were assigned.
The Boomer generation was free to choose what jobs they wanted or didn't want. Some worked, some stayed home; some excelled, some failed.
What you call a socialist con, other might call a tithe. It's all a matter of perspective. Personally, I think you've been led astray by the philosophy of Christopher Hitchens, a Brit, an atheist, and a contrarian of anything establishment. I remember reading his essays when they were published because he was a critical voice of the times, but I didn't subscribe to them. It's a shame that he died at age 62 -- I wonder if he might have had an epiphany if he had the chance to reach old age.
-PJ
It was well known 80 years ago that socialism doesn’t work. America’s Founding Fathers, when discussing the type of governance they should be under, when forming America, socialism was part of that discussion. They rejected it back then for the same reasons we should today, because it doesn’t work.
The reason I see the truth and you don’t is because I can do math. The world’s debt was accumulated by those who couldn’t do math. The impoverishment of the future is guaranteed because those who did the impoverishing couldn’t do math. If you honestly can’t see the impoverishment, than I would probably argue that you can’t do math.
You don’t need a planned economy to achieve the end results of socialism. You just have to be unable to do math. The end result of devastation will be the same.
Your children and your grandchildren might still be able to choose their own jobs, they just won’t be able to make a choice to support themselves because they will have no choice but to support the debt you bequeathed them and the socialism you desire.
You can call it what you want, but you tithed the kids into impoverishment. Hitchens is correct economically. Socialism may create that perfect society, but it only does so for one generation and the next generation starves. Math, again.