Older students and the liberal arts

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My general point is, in a socialist culture if you work hard, you are still rewarded. People who are great at their job get promoted, people who aren't either get a dead end job, quit, or get fired. There's no difference between that in Denmark (with the highest income tax in the world) and the US. Incentive still exists, you can still buy luxury cars, get a big house, the whole american dream.
Socialism exists because quite often, the plight of the poor is not related to their hard work. I wonder if there's anyone on this entire forum who came from the lower class (and let's not pretend, the REAL lower class) and made something of themselves. It happens, but it's extremely rare. If this person does exist, ask them how many of their peers from those days made it too, I guess it'll be close to zero. The situation people face often doesn't allow them to come up. An extremely select few attain their goals, and the rest suffer because of the system. The vast majority of them can't do anything about their situation. Did you know that 1 in 4 american children grow up in poverty? Did you know that most of these people won't graduate highschool? How come America's the only developed nation seriously suffering from this problem? Is it coincidence that Americans are just "lazier" than the rest of the developed world?

Do you think people in every western nation besides america are communists, because according to your Lenin quote, that's what should have happened over time. It clearly hasn't.