Really? Well, how do you explain the fact that my bills are always paid on time, my credit cards never run up any interest, and I run a capitalist small business that's in the green? (despite being, philosophically speaking, a socialist in my general nature)

What I would like to see is a society that doesn't even have money at all, and has no poverty, and has more worthy motivating factors for people to put their energies into. Such a society was depicted on the Star Trek show, where the only people who cared about money were the corrupt and greedy Ferengi.

However, I know that's not going to happen here. No chance whatsoever of it happening. We are going to continue to have money as the prime motivating factor in this society. Accordingly, I handle money competently and deal with it because I must, not because I particularly want to. And I deal with if efficiently. Socialists are just as capable of understanding economics as anyone else is.