Then left view of socialism is that socialism equals fairness and equality?
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And then I think from there the sort of organizing principle of democratic socialism is to move as much of the economy as possible under democratic control. So, to return control of the economy to the people at large instead of a small number of super rich people.
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My question is how do you propose to accomplish this?
In my view, we can have either fairness or equality, not both. While you can have a compromise between the two, you have to decide which has priority at least.
Fairness, those who work more, invest more, take more risk should receive greater compensation.
Equality, the state of being equal. Maybe this work in a legal sense, well not really, but ideally, justice should treat everyone equal. However my life will never be equal to that of a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. Economically, socially I don't see how fairness is achievable.
In my view, capitalism is as close to "fairness" as we can possibly get. In tossing out capitalism we also toss out any chance of fairness.