Socialism = Endless Meetings

If that doesn’t motivate you to oppose socialism, nothing will. Andrea Harris has a brilliant takedown of this model for a socialist society. One of the points of the article is that a good socialist workplace would have weekly meetings with “endless debates.” **shudder** Andrea responds:

Well, that sounds like paradise right there -- endless meetings, endless hours in an underheated concrete-walled cavern feeling your ass grow numb in your seat while some ratchet-jaw with iron lungs blathers on and on about some nitpicky detail of office politics. I call this the "Nightmare of the Folding Chairs," the interminable lifetime of meetings to which these people want to reduce our lives. Outside the grass may be growing and the sun might be shining, but we won't know it because it's Meeting Day.

Other plans for a socialist paradise include everyone earning the same pay and job sharing. That is, if you have more valuable skills, you would still earn the same pay as an unskilled worker, because, darn it, that’s nicer. As for job sharing, never mind that people are individuals who have different interests and different skills. In the workers’ paradise, you’re just another warm body to fill a billet.

The article asserts that this proposed utopia would not be a dictatorship. However, it would take the police power of the government to get people to accept such a sorry arrangement.