Capitalism: Market forces and smart decision-making help a company generate record profits. The company’s rank-and-file workers, via profit-sharing agreements secured during labor negotiations, earn sizable bonuses, which they then spend in their communities, invest back into the economy, and pay taxes on to the government. The company’s investors, meanwhile, reinvest in the business, receive dividends (which are, in turn, invested in other companies), and provide the government with additional tax revenue. This process of economic value creation, in which workers and capital providers alike participate, creates a cycle of growth, mutual benefit, and shared prosperity across all of society, even for those who are not direct stakeholders in the company. Socialism: Regardless of supply and demand in the economy, the company earns no profit, because profit is inherently exploitative. The business never grows, as there are neither the price signals needed to indicate that demand for its output has grown nor the reservoir of historical profits that would serve as the capital stock for investment in additional capacity. The company’s workers—who, in theory, own the business, though in reality the company is controlled by a committee of politically connected bureaucrats far removed from the company’s operations—are not financially incentivized to innovate or to work harder, and they therefore perform the bare minimum amount of labor necessary to avoid derogatory marks on their social credit scores or forfeiture of their state-controlled housing. The company limps along, sustained only by its government-enforced monopoly; the economy stagnates; workers suffer; and life is miserable for all but the rarified elites upon whom political favor rests.