Ben Shapiro

Well, pretty much all are subsidized by, of course, the market economy.

Those systems are essentially draws on capitalism.

They cannot exist separate from the supportive network of capitalism that generates all the revenue and all the services upon which they leech.

Objection number four, we already have socialism here in America.

Well, no, we actually have some socialized systems, kind of, sort of, like Medicare.

Some people try to pretend that, for example, the police department is a socialized system.

Nope, this is just called a public good.

Public goods exist in every system.

These would be non-rivalrous and non-excludable goods, meaning my use of the system does not burden your use of the system.

So a great example of this.

We all pay into the military.

The military defends all of us equivalently.

Therefore, it is not a socialist system.

It is called a public good.

I could not pay for it myself.

We all pay for it together and we all benefit from it.

That is not the same as a socialized system like Medicare, for example, with an individual recipient of benefits.

Objection number five, a just society should produce equal outcomes, not just equal opportunity.

This is the big philosophical objection to capitalism.

The idea here is that capitalism is fundamentally unfair and that we ought to correct all of the terrible injustices of living on this planet with the power of government.