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For me, the divide between capitolism and socialism revolves around Thomas Jefferson's "All men are created equally". Its a HUGE simplification of the ideas but I believe its a good illustration.
Socialism: All men are created equally... and stay that way throughout life.
Capitolism: All men are created equally, but your worth can change with the amount of work you put into life.
For me the idea of living in a purely socialist world is a stiffling and oppressive thought. For socialism to work, it has to be controlled by very strict governments. Governments that are willing to force people to work, willing to tell people what their job is, and willing to collect everything and redistribute it. Other wise, in a socialist system with no oppressive government, the slackers of the world would have even less motivation to do anything productive and the people who actually give a shit would be forced to work more so the slackers could get away with doing less. There is no way a system like that can sustain itself.
I prefer the freedom capitolism offers. In a purely capitolistic world, I am free to live life for myself and not a collective community. I am free to choose what I want to be. I can choose to work hard and achieve goals, or I can choose to sit around and do nothing. I am also free to volunteer or make donations and help the community when I feel like it, or NOT volunteer when I don't feel like it. It follows natures law of natural selection, and as far as I know, natural selection does not need a large beuracracy to make sure the predators and prey balance eachother out.
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