Consider this analogy:
A tribe of a couple hundred people live in isolation, their level of technology being that of the Stone Age: They live in straw huts, every day they hunt and gather for survival, and that's it. Their most advanced technology is some wooden spear sharpened with a rock. The entire tribe regularly suffers from famine because there's so little to hunt and gather, and overall their living conditions are very poor.
Then two of them put their heads together and start thinking about how they could make their own lives better. They start thinking, they start tinkering, they start developing, they start testing and experimenting. After years of this kind of work they start to slowly developing for themselves a farm where they cultivate plants and raise domesticated animals. They develop tools for this purpose, they develop better buildings and better infrastructure.
It takes years and years, and it's a lot of work, but over time it starts paying off: Their cultivation and their domesticated animals start giving them plenty of produce, their knowledge and skill improves over the years allowing them to make the agriculture and farming even more efficient and less laborious, and for them to develop and build even better homes, better farmhouses, better storage silos.
Essentially, compared to the rest of their tribe, these two people become mega-rich.
The rest of their tribe, who at first thought they were just crazy, start getting jealous: Why should those two get to keep all those riches? Why should they get to live in luxury, comfort and have plenty of wood, while the rest of the tribe lives in famine and deplorable conditions, having to hunt and gather to survive? It's so unfair!
So they engage in some good old Communist "seizing of the means of production" and "wealth redistribution" (in other words, stealing). Not that they contributed one iota to the production of those riches, mind you. But they still deserve their share because it's only fair!
They do not ask. They take. Because that's the Socialist Communist way: Seize, take, redistribute. Take away from the rich, whether they want it or not.
And what do you know, soon the situation regresses to what it was before: The two people who developed farming and agriculture and did years of hard work to build it, all on their own, end up with nothing, all of their property stolen, and anything they would continue to make likewise stolen.
That's the "Socialist" way. The "Communist" way.
Now consider the other alternative: Rather than the rest of the tribe seizing and stealing all the riches from the two guys, the two guys instead hire people from the rest of the tribe to expand their farm and work on it, for a salary of food. This allows them to greatly improve production, to build better and more infrastructure, to have everybody in the tribe get food in exchange for contributing with their work.
Over the years, the entire tribe starts to flourish, their living conditions improve, and nobody needs to experience famine anymore.
Which one of these economies is better for the entire tribe?
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