The Soul of Man Under Socialism

[KGZotU]

I think you misunderstood me, I should be explicit.

When I say that you choose how much money you want to make, I mean it literally and without value judgment.

You once had a higher paying job. You've chosen a lower paying job. Therefor, how much money you make is your choice. Even if this is not strictly true, you understand what I mean.

I'm not saying you should choose to make more money. I'm not saying that if you worked harder that you would make more money, or that in order to make more money you would have to work harder.

Just this, you choose how much money to make. You choose it through your education, through your career, through your choice of city.

By prosperity, I mean a very moderate prosperity. The kind that you describe. It's a kind that I've had on $15,000 a year. We could have lived like that forever, except that the money had strings.

I don't know anything about your situation. You express dissatisfaction, however, and I'm saying that there is a path to your satisfaction that does not depend on anybody else's actions.

--Joe