An economics professor at a local college made
a statement that he had never failed a single
student before, but had recently failed an entire
class. That class had insisted that socialism
worked and that no one would be poor and no
one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an
experiment in this class on Socialism principles:
All grades will be averaged and everyone will
receive the same grade so no one will fail and no
one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for
dollars - something closer to home and more
readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged
and everyone got a B. The students who studied
hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy. As the second test rolled
around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard
decided they wanted a free ride too so they
studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was
happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was
an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never
increased as bickering, blame and name-calling
all resulted in hard feelings and no one would
study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the
professor told them that socialism would also
ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
the effort to succeed is great, but when
government takes all the reward away, no one
will try or want to succeed. Could not be any
simpler than that. These are possibly the 5 best
sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to
this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity
by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for,
another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take
from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they
do not have to work because the other half is
going to take care of them, and when the other
half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what
they work for, that is the beginning of the end of
any nation.
a statement that he had never failed a single
student before, but had recently failed an entire
class. That class had insisted that socialism
worked and that no one would be poor and no
one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an
experiment in this class on Socialism principles:
All grades will be averaged and everyone will
receive the same grade so no one will fail and no
one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for
dollars - something closer to home and more
readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged
and everyone got a B. The students who studied
hard were upset and the students who studied
little were happy. As the second test rolled
around, the students who studied little had
studied even less and the ones who studied hard
decided they wanted a free ride too so they
studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was
happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was
an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never
increased as bickering, blame and name-calling
all resulted in hard feelings and no one would
study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the
professor told them that socialism would also
ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
the effort to succeed is great, but when
government takes all the reward away, no one
will try or want to succeed. Could not be any
simpler than that. These are possibly the 5 best
sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to
this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity
by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for,
another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take
from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they
do not have to work because the other half is
going to take care of them, and when the other
half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what
they work for, that is the beginning of the end of
any nation.
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