My attention today wanders towards the perfect way of organizing what I will define broadly as "society" - all of mankind. Of course, I know (and you should know) that the most perfect way to organize ourselves is a benevolent dictatorship with me in charge of the operation of the planet. We all know that I am too lazy to get moving on this initiative, so we must examine other alternatives. It is absolutely clear that far-and-away the best alternative is capitalism.
It needs to be said, however, that the goals of socialism are the best. Who doesn't want everyone in the world to be happy and have what they need to better themselves? The problem with socialism is that in its truest form, it causes the exact opposite: most are unhappy and there is no incentive to better yourself. Anything in the middle doesn't work either, because it is just not a practical way of doing things. Let's say, for example, a decision was made that everyone must give what they can afford to the less-fortunate. What does this mean? That could be 50 cents to somebody or $100 million to another. As I've said before, life is defined by the line and where you draw it. Socialism is about knowing where you want to put the line but being practically unable do it. The only way to accomplish the goals of socialism is to impose a completely arbitrary set of rules on everyone, except who's going to do that? The answer has been tried and it isn't pretty.
Capitalism is easy, intuitive, is much more common-sense. It's not about being equal - because people are not equal. Arguably, it could be a goal for humanity to strive towards, but it's just a plain fact that no person is 100% like the other. "One size fits all" doesn't apply in life or anything else. So what does this system do? It rewards the best, brightest, most hard-working, and just plain lucky, and does nothing at all to help the others. All if this happens automatically, which is really the beauty of the whole thing. Is this wrong? Is this evil? I certainly don't think so.
It's really all about your point of view on the situation. For me, most of school growing up was absolute torture. Why? It's quite simple - we progressed through the material as fast as the slowest person in the class could handle it. Instead of letting those who were capable move on to other things, everyone progressed at the same retarded rate. Socialism is a lot like that, we might all personally be marginally better off (that is, if we could get a practical system of socialism that works), but collectively we'd all be much further behind.