Only thing I have against it is the air-headed, simple-minded take of most on lemmy. I've asked a dozen times how socialism stops money from funneling to the top and into the hands of a few. Never once got an answer. Look in this thread right now! There's not one real definition, just the usual capitalism bad, socialism good, take.

Best government and economic system I've seen in human history is a capitalist economic model with serious guard rails and "socialism" for the government. I put socialism in quotes because the word means to lemmings whatever they want it to mean, so the term is wishy washy.

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 6 points 16 hours ago

I’ve asked a dozen times how socialism stops money from funneling to the top and into the hands of a few.

"Without capitalism the elite won't feel the need to enrich themselves! They'll work for the common good, obviously!" /s because, well, this is Lemmy. I love it but...

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Socialism, communism, whatever other utopian ideologies, require that people be invested and actively participating in it. The way wealth stops being funneled to the top is that people are invested (and informed enough) to stop it from happening. How that would happen in a practical sense would depend entirely on how these ideologies were implemented. Anyone who tells you it's all just very simple and easy would be lying to you. The main factor would be active participation by the vast majority of the populace. Without that, any attempts would be doomed to failure.