Why Socialism?

Because austerity and "Businesses need tax breaks to create jobs": Fuck it, we tax them ALL the money, and give them back what we think they need #Communism Seriously, the older I get, the more radically socialist I feel.

I want people to have freedom, but I really want people to be fed, healthy and have a place to live and if that means some Banker makes 100K a year instead of 300K a year cry me a fucking river, or live in a van down by it for a year. We need to throw throw open the storehouses of wealth and bring those resources to help all.  While I think there is a path to a semblance of civil rights from this point in time, I don't see a path to economic justice from here that doesn't involve the apocalypse. And true social justice needs economic justice. Again, I want people to invent and create and to get paid for it. I want to invent and create and get paid too.

But FIRST, we need to invent a system that doesn't require people working for next to free to afford food. We need to create a world where labor is what you do because you want to and can, not because you have to. A big part of that will be pumping money and standards into the developing world If we want to close down the sweatshops, we need to feed the people who are sweating. We need to house them, we need to make sure they can receive medical care. As a culture we need to stop asking "Do they deserve it?" and start saying "No one should suffer."