Nobody I know who do advocate socialistic approaches believe that people are motivated primarily by what is good for society [I am paraphrasing]. In fact, advocating for (some) socialist policies is because they understand that many people are NOT concerned with what benefits more or most people, only what benefits them personally. Your self-applied “easy button" was to assert that people are motivated “primarily but not necessarily by self interest.”

uh, #greedisgo. ?

What your (frankly, shallow) Hoover Institute-like resort to classic view of the three economic systems misses is a couple of key elements.

First, many young people do not know what socialism really is any more than those on the right. Bernie Sanders was a key public face for this with his confusing “democratic-socialist" tag. A solid well manages social welfare state such as in Scandinavia is not really socialism which is what many young people point to when arguing for “socialism.”

The second point you ignore is the real piracy going on in so called American capitalism- we literally have the largest benefits of the economy going not to those who are productive but rather to those who know how to game the system, influence laws to their benefit, manipulate items in the financial world to get wealthy while creating NO real value. [#rentseeking]

And I won’t even bother to address your disgusting cheap shots and Reagan-like attacks on the poor reflecting the standard Ayn Rand fare that they will just get free stuff. Jeesh, at least be original.

And since you brought up healthcare yes -this pandemic has completely exposed the failure of capitalism in addressing the needs of actual people!