>>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.

Well, outside of The Garden of Eden and the early church of Acts, it's never existed but for brief periods. Sin is always crouching at the door, ready to seize any opportunity to destroy a godly purpose. And because man ate from the Tree of The Knowledge of Good And Evil, man himself is incapable of resisting it. It requires Christ, His Holy Spirit to set men free, to change their polarity into that servant's heart.

>Doug

I'm willing to move to Ecuador and give it a go. I think what Correa has mapped out is brilliant. It would be amazing to be a part of that movement from the ground up.

You're right about people though. I believe there is a solution for that as well. I just need to find men willing to implement the solution.