A socialist clan that equally rewards everyone regardless of their effort will fail. That's like giving someone free money thinking it will cause them to want to work harder. The people that work really hard will stop working hard because they aren't getting rewarded for their efforts and the people that don't work hard in the first place work even less because they are rewarded more then their efforts. So everyone works less and less is produced and nobody's happy. Sad thing is people actually want the USA to be this way.
Socialism would never work.
you are mistaking socialism for communism, socialism strives to make things more equal and not based of monetary wealth unlike capitalism but it doesn't restrict growth like communism.
There are several socialist countries in the EU, it does work.
Just shows your a characteristic ignorant American, id take a wild guess and say you voted for Cruz or Trump due to your limited beliefs about the world, not everything is black and white and the socialist countries around the world thrive much more than others, look at Finland or Denmark and do some research literacy rate in Finland is 99-100%, americas literacy rate is around the 80% mark which is around 60 Million people for a country of 300 million due to unaffordable education and high unemployment rate with little government benefits.
Oderint Dum Metuant.