College-age socialists may want to come down from the ivory tower of academic theory, where people are just so many faceless crash dummies sitting passively behind the wheel, and imagine themselves in a fully socialist state: You work, the state takes all your earnings, and you are guaranteed everything you need in life for free.
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How hard are you going to work?
Are you even going to show up for work?
Tell the truth, if you were guaranteed the same level of support whether you worked or you didn’t, would you ever set an alarm clock? Would anybody?
It’s day one of our socialist experiment, and already the crash dummies are getting out of the cars. Next, they’ll quit medical school.
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