That's not a very good response. I have always heard that those quotes were by Wilde and Wolfe and a few minutes research provided several confirmations.
I'm sorry, @PHG1960, but the links you posted are from low quality sources. Please cite primary sources or a high value site such as Wikiquote or Quote Investigator.
It is by definition a source, as you can get information from it.
If you mean it's not a reliable source, that depends. Certainly you shouldn't be using Wikipedia for an academic paper, but the fact that it's fact-checked by so many people means that it's now probably one of the most reliable sources on the internet most of the time (taking into account warning banners on the tops of pages and leaving aside certain communities like the three or four different Serbo-Croatian dialects).
After all, approximately three quarters of new content on the internet is AI-generated (Source: https://ahrefs.com/blog/what-percentage-of-new-content-is-ai-generated/). Wikipedia may not be the greatest source, but at least you can generally be sure that major articles were written by humans who know something about the field they were writing about.
I like it. It's pithy. What I don't love is shifting definitions of socialism. It has gone from "workers owning the means of production" to "something vaguely Swedish". I think that, like terrorism, the word has lost all meaning. People should say what they mean.
It is certainly pithy. But it makes absolutely zero sense if you think about it for ever a short amount of time. If we're in danger of running out of money, having less of it, or keeping vast quantities of it in the pockets of the wealthy, doesn't eliminate that danger. If the problem were that we don't have resources to allocate, then allocate fewer of them. Regardless of what definition of socialism you want to use, it's still just dumb on its face.
There are many other problems (and good things) about socialism but it does rely on forcibly taking your money and using it for the perceived good of the whole. I tend to agree with Churchill that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
In what way is it an ignorant quote. Pretty accurate if you ask me. A system built on the premise of needs and wants met by the capacity of the state, means that the state become the arbiters of what is deemed necessary and what is excessive, become the arbiters of who can own what.
As the cost of living increases, resources become scarcer, populations increase, ect. - all these things mean less money-per-person. And that means deciding to take actions such as (but not limited to as creative dictators have proven) reappropriating ownership (stealing), reduction of population (killing), forcible reduction in cost of living by not providing the basic necessities. And for their unpopularity, even more methods of authoritarian control are peddled, in the realm of surveillance, CI's, murdering dissenters.
No part of socialism at any degree is about fiscal responsibility, you suckle off the state and you give as much as is demanded, and in times of shortage, you have, and get nothing.
Socialism is all about spending everyone else's money in the name of the greater good but fortunately most Socialists are smart enough to completely take all the money from the people who pay for everything. I'm also a fan of "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest."
Sloths sleep 15 - 18 hours a day and average movement per day is 41 yards. No real incentive to move more or faster when you food is just hanging there where you are.
Everything in moderation, including moderation, including moderation of moderation, including moderation of moderation of moderation, including moderation of moderation of moderation of moderation, including moderation of moderation of moderation of moderation of moderation, and so on, is basically what #18 indicates.
If you mean it's not a reliable source, that depends. Certainly you shouldn't be using Wikipedia for an academic paper, but the fact that it's fact-checked by so many people means that it's now probably one of the most reliable sources on the internet most of the time (taking into account warning banners on the tops of pages and leaving aside certain communities like the three or four different Serbo-Croatian dialects).
After all, approximately three quarters of new content on the internet is AI-generated (Source: https://ahrefs.com/blog/what-percentage-of-new-content-is-ai-generated/). Wikipedia may not be the greatest source, but at least you can generally be sure that major articles were written by humans who know something about the field they were writing about.
As the cost of living increases, resources become scarcer, populations increase, ect. - all these things mean less money-per-person. And that means deciding to take actions such as (but not limited to as creative dictators have proven) reappropriating ownership (stealing), reduction of population (killing), forcible reduction in cost of living by not providing the basic necessities. And for their unpopularity, even more methods of authoritarian control are peddled, in the realm of surveillance, CI's, murdering dissenters.
No part of socialism at any degree is about fiscal responsibility, you suckle off the state and you give as much as is demanded, and in times of shortage, you have, and get nothing.