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Decoy77 posted...

But that's the thing, under socialism everyone gets the same no matter how much they do or don't do. Work 0 hours? Great you get $500 for the week. Oh you worked 80 hours? Great you get $500 for the week.

No. What the hell? Where did this myth come from? Is this some pervasive American anti-socialist propaganda?

Socialism means that the workers own the means of production, and get all the profits. In theory, this would mean that working hard gets you even more money than in capitalism. In practice, in the Soviet Union workers' wages were directly based on how much they produced. This rewarded hard work even more than usual wage labor, but led to an inefficient bureaucracy and managers fudging the numbers out of compassion.

The Soviet Union also had a strong social safety net, but that's not really an inherent part of socialism, and is something capitalist countries have to varying degrees.