Piers I think you took my last response and muddied it up. I already mentioned that in a socialist environment one could own one's own means of personal transport. You didn't have to devolve into undergarments, that was notionally obvious.

Moreover, despite my caution that socialism should not be confused with Communism (in order to preserve the good name of socialism) you went right there. The USSR was a corrupt system, and Communism whether corrupt or not, has failed wherever it has been state sponsored. Socialism still exists, not as an overweening system, but as an element within a larger system.

As to Socialism as a single unifying economic system, as E. O. Wilson, has observed: "Socialism: Great System, Wrong Species!"

E. O. Wilson is a renowned expert on ants.

In your last paragraph about technology being so advanced no one need go without, you are confusing technology with resources. It doesn't do you much good to have a Rolls on the driveway if you can't provide the gasoline to make it go. Get a horse!

It may indeed be time for the next revolution. In that revolution we may find ourselves on bicycles and railroads rather than SUVs and jetplanes. Sic transit gloria etc. etc.