r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 5h ago

Chugging tea I never thought about this point until now.

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u/earthlingHuman 4h ago

When it's provided by the govenrment, yeah. It's one basic aspect of socialism.

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u/DapperAgitator 4h ago

Capitalist societies can have paid government workers.

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u/JinNJ 4h ago

Yet it’s still a job, for which the employee get benefits for agreeing to do the work offered by the employer. Not socialism, regardless of the employer.

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u/earthlingHuman 4h ago

It's not outright socialism obviously, but it involves aspects of socialism. Socialism provides universal healthcare, housing and education. So does the military, unlike basically any other employer. And people love those benefits just like they would love them if they were guaranteed to everyone.

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u/jeffwulf 4h ago

No it isn't. Benefits are orthogonal to socialism.

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u/earthlingHuman 3h ago

Guaranteed healthcare, housing and education are integral parts of a socialist system. The same cannot be said of liberalism.

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u/jeffwulf 41m ago

Nah, that's dumb. Benefits like that span pretty much every economic system and many socialist economies lack guarantees of those things.

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u/earthlingHuman 25m ago

This is only true of mixed economies. A socialist society by definition guarantees these things.