socialism
Got this as an e-mail
An economics professor at Texas Tech said 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. But, 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, 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....
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