Aren't people motivated by money? Wouldn't socialism stifle hard work and innovation?
The world is a mess. War, poverty, and oppression are now part of the daily lives of billions round the globe. Even during the last boom 80% of the world's population – 5.4 billion people – lived on less than $10 a day. Now that the world is in the midst of this crisis even the head of the World Bank has said it will result in "a human and developmental calamity… the number of chronically hungry people is expected to climb over 1 billion this year". The wars in the middle east, enviromental destruction and worsening economic turmoil are only the most recent striking examples of the crises facing humanity.
