My literate readers will recognize this blog title as the title of a book by Ralph Bellamy a notorious American socialist. He advocated the same ideas as modern socialists 150 years ago.
Maybe with Bernie Sanders doing so well running for president as a socialist on the Democrat Party ticket, Bellamy is relevant. Bellamy fully understood the nature of socialism. He showed that a redistribution of income would make every American able to live in the same luxury as the very richest in 1887.
That is how idealized socialism would work. And most importantly we would be living in 1887 with outdoor toilets, no electricity, horses and bikes as our transportation, everyone living with farm animals to provide most of their food and preparing it themselves. Life spans of 60 years, only few occupations and intense pain from countless medical nightmares. Etc.
For 50 years after Bellamy, all of Europe contributed to technology and modernity. Only America has been making a significant contribution to modernity since 1945 when socialism conquered Europe. The war technology and the meritocratic world of commerce in America since then has produced the modern miraculous world.
Strange to say, modern American youth are uneducated fools. The people in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, who lived under socialism for 45 years chose modern commerce for their lives in 1992 when the yoke of Russia lifted off their lives.