Scholar: Millennials Prefer Socialism “Until they Get Jobs”
30th March 2016
Or until they get government jobs (like Bernie Sanders), which aren’t real jobs.
And yet, millennials don’t like what socialism actually is: government ownership of production, or government running businesses. Like other generations, they prefer a free-market economic system, especially as they get older and begin to earn more money. A wide margin, 64-to-32 percent, favored a free-market system when it was explained to them.
Socialism: The political system for ignorant people.
Ekins suggested that, to millennials, socialism means an expansion of social welfare programs. Fifty-two percent of millennials favor big government that provides services. But, favoring “a Scandinavian social democracy” may not last. Again, people want to keep their money rather than see it redistributed.
They don’t mind picking other people’s pockets, but object to their own pockets being picked.