Socialism is for the bees

Ronald Homan
Published: November 1, 2008

A socialist economy is much like a bee hive. There are worker bees and drones and the queen. The idea is that the worker bees go out and collect the pollen that makes the honey for the subsistence of
the members of the hive. 

Now if drones become too numerous, the worker bees cannot keep up with demand. Of course the drone’s solution is to tax the worker bees portion so there will be more for them.

There comes a time when the worker bees can no longer function because they can longer endure the long flights to gather the pollen due to being sapped of energy because of the taxation of their share
of honey and become susceptible to disease and die off. 

Of course, the drones also die off because they no longer have access to the free lunch and no longer have the strength to service the queen.

The queen bee doesn’t really care because she can search out another group of worker bees and start another hive and write another book on Marxism. And that my friends is the lesson of socialism.

RONALD HOMAN

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