>Since everybody is focusing on the needs of other people

That is the central problem with your view. People are good and bad and generous and selfish and competent and stupid -- both as a group and as individuals. Without perfect humans, a perfectly socialistic society can't exist. Some elements of socialism can and do exist, such as nationalized health care in most countries, but color me cynical, a society where "everybody is focusing on the needs of other people" simply is an unattainable Utopia.

Doug