“The aspects of daily American life that people like and take for granted — plentiful food available at well-stocked supermarkets... — are all made possible by the capitalist/profit-oriented structure of our economic system. If the private business profit incentive is removed, as is the case in a socialist economy, the underlying competitive impetus for providing those goods and services disappears.”
Back in the days of the old Soviet Union, someone made a comment that “if Marilyn Monroe walked the streets of Moscow completely nude save a new pair of shoes, the Muscovites would look at her feet.”
We are now raising our second generation who have no memories of the Cold War and who simply just don’t get that.
That right there is your problem.