I would be okay with this regardless of my hypothetical wife being the blonde or the brunette . <| sep |> So , just curious . is there an after stuffed on Thanksgiving ? <| sep |> Well I ' d start off with government services that start with free and work my way out from there . For a slightly less smartass answer though , let ' s start with literally the first result you get if you google socialism a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production , distribution , and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole . synonyms leftism , welfarismI ' d agree entirely with that definition except for one problem regulated by the Community as a whole has absolutely no meaning . That can mean anything from completely free market where it is regulated by the community choosing which goods to support based on any number of criteria and suing those who break the law or it can mean full communism where the community is represented by the big boot of government acting on behalf of the collective or so I ' m told , history seems to think otherwise . The problem is socialism always slowly leans towards the latter and decries the evils of the former for things that often end up being the result of government interference than free market failures . Socialism is always bound to fail because it ' s financially unsustainable , offers little to no incentive for productivity , and cannot quickly react to changes in supply and demand , among a myriad of other reasons . Personally though , as a minarchist , I really only believe that the government should be responsible for the courts , military , and police and that everything else should ideally have some level of opting in or out if it exists at all . That ' s the ideal though , that I don ' t think would happen even with 100 years of my guy getting elected especially with the current state of the libertarian party . That doesn ' t mean I think everything beyond that is socialism , but past a certain point it becomes shades of grey into socialism . I just don ' t believe full UBI , free college , free housing , free food , free everything that ' s considered part of a living wage socialism is viable at the current time . That ' s not to say it might not be viable or even necessary in 100 years or so assuming the singularity turns out okay and automation has replaced the majority of production based jobs and even that ' s only because I believe you could eventually design a supercomputer and information network smart enough to handle the inefficiencies of central planning . I for one welcome our new robot overlords . . But as of right now I just don ' t see socialism working without failing as exemplified by places like Sweden and Venezuela .