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Children have food, shelter, education, and medical care provided (well or badly) by adults. Socialists want food, shelter, education, and medical care provided for everyone. Families are small socialist societies. Socialists want to treat everyone like family.
Children want things before they learn about money. When parents say "we can't afford it" children think they're cruel or stupid. Socialists believe a government that doesn't give the people what they want is cruel or inefficient.
Children can't imagine human diversity. They assume everyone feels like they do. Socialists think the right plan will make everyone happy. In reality our different values, habits, and perceptions make profound disagreement natural and inevitable.
Children should not control adults and socialists should not control society. Socialist thinking regresses us into a state of helpless dependence. The illusion of socialism will only be discarded when people understand its roots and outgrow its childish world view.
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