Why didn’t communism work?
The trouble with bad and greedy people is that they never seem to rest. It doesn’t appear to matter how you organise a society, they always manage to swing the system to their advantage. If a social system is designed to benefit everybody, the greedy ones will pervert it so they get more of the benefits with less effort. Ultimately, they will parasitise any system – no matter how well-designed it might have been in the beginning – harnessing all of its apparatus for their own good. In the case of our so-called “democracies” you can…