An economics
professor at a local college made a statement that he had never
failed a single student before but had once 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. All grades would be averaged
and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and
no one would receive an A.
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.
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.
All failed, to their great surprise, 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.
