So, its just like any socialist system. The hard workers have to pay for the few who are irresponsible until the whole collapses. Whether it be individuals, towns, nations or “Unions” of nations; socialism ruins all for the benefit of a few.
It’s really too bad that people cannot get this through their heads once and for all.
The lure of "stuff for free" is irresistible, and freeloaders are in the majority.
How can you fix that in a democracy? Education doesn't work because people don't want to learn. You might be better off teaching tensor analysis to a gangbanger. In other words,
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair
The cause is actually common between socialism and pyramid schemes - people want to get rich on labor of "someone else," and they make sure that "someone else" is not them. The hard working people don't have a say in this decision; often they are ridiculed for their effort. Citizens of USSR at least had a chance of escaping to Israel or the USA; but can a European today escape into the USA, and is it even worth it, as things are?
I cant wait for 1 world government and finance..../s