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Old 5th May, 2008, 08:26 AM
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Well, if everyone in it is for everyone, and it's all nice...then yeah, socialism works. But if everyone is perfect then just about everything else works too, capitalism, despotism, etc. And socialism gets messed up pretty quick as soon as you have a few corrupt a**holes, whereas it takes quite a few more to mess a democracy up.

# of a**holes required to absolutely screw up a government:
Democracy: > 30% of total population
Socialism: 2-5%
Despot/Dictator: 1 person

At least IMO.
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Last edited by Redroar : 5th May, 2008 at 01:07 PM. Reason: Realized after posting I overestimated Democracy's resilience to aholes.
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