The answers to these questions go FAR beyond the amount of space available here to properly answer them. The answers given are meant to make the reader use their critical thinking skills and apply their desire for socialism to themselves.

The lazy person will always whole heartedly agree they should be supported by others who work while the working people will be enraged that those that don't work think they are entitled to a free ride!

Is socialism about equality?

In theory. However, when you allow, or demand, the government take what someone earned and give it to someone who didn't earn it the stage is set for social strife.

Think about your possessions - How would you feel if someone from the government confiscated them and gave them to someone who didn't want them? Wouldn't appreciate them and possibly destroy them - because they can get more from another person just like you!

It's not who or what you are that holds you back.

It is who and what you think you're not!

What happens when a socialist government fails?

Social equality ends in tyranny: a strong central government, ruled by the few, who control the means of production, the political process, the media, and collects all profit from the labor of the many.

This change generally is a slow creep, most people won't see the change until it is too late to do anything about it! As a socialist society breaks down those 'in charge' of government fight to retain control resulting in a tyranny.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is

big enough to take everything you have!

Doesn't capitalism promote selfishness?

Is it selfish to want to keep what you earned? The possessions for which you worked!

The advocates of socialism generally condemn selfishness and advocate altruism. They want to make a better world, improve human relationships, establish fairness and equality. These are, indeed, noble goals, but they ignore the emotions that guaranteed equality in our evolutionary past. And they ignore the inescapable fact that the conditions that produced equality in ancestral human bands no longer exist.

If those proclaiming they want socialism truly believed it would make society better, wouldn't they be living in shacks giving their half their money and possessions to those who don't have equal property?

True selfishness is coveting the property of another

instead of working to obtain the object of your desire!

Shouldn't everyone want equality and prosperity?

Lofty socialist ideals have produced regrettable results. When agriculture drove out foraging, the need to cooperate was no longer essential to survival.

Capitalism will play a major role in the global revival of liberty and prosperity because it nurtures the human spirit, inspires human creativity, and promotes the spirit of enterprise. By providing a powerful system of incentives that promote thrift, hard work, and efficiency, capitalism creates wealth.

Equality is a relative term - do you want the income of a doctor without having to study and work for it? is that equality? Do you think a doctor should earn no more than you do? Is that equality?

The doctor won't think so!

Does socialism promote equal prosperity?

Socialism is the big lie of the twentieth century. While its supporters believe it promises prosperity, equality, and security, it actually delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny.

Equality will be achieved but only because

everyone will be equal in their poverty and misery.