Mixed doubles has to be socialist though right? A man and a woman working together at something that doesn't lead to a baby?
Yeah, mixed doubles is a bitter pill for me to swallow. I can't handle too much of it. But anything that encourages women to play, I support.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Because he doesn't know it. He really is that stupid.
Let me update my dictionary,
idiot=any individual who does not agree with Kevin Graham
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
The article did a very poor job connecting the anecdote of relating a lack of respect for individual achievement to socialism. Humorously, the anecdote rang true for me both in my experience in school and in my experience in the corporate world. Free riders exist everywhere. The effect is that takes for granted that the capitalist antithesis of socialism is all about individualist meritocracy, which really isn't the case in reality - unless you count things like being born wealth as meritous. Indeed, there are several countries that by any reasonable understanding of the term are more socialist than the US while demonstrably being more meritocratic, probably because of moral equality of opportunity and culturally homogeneous populations.
I suppose the idea here is that redistribution of wealth countervails economic reward/incentive for individual achievement, which is true enough. This creates space for free riders. The article just does a piss poor job of getting this point across and has a tin-ear for there being such a thing as group achievement and failure. The article is more a screed against collective work attached to collective success or failure than anything. But the power of group achievement, at the end of the day, is a big part of what makes capitalist systems so bloody successful. As Atul Gawande would be happy to point out, there are no master builders anymore. Unless this woman is a savant-hermit, it's hard to see how she successfully refuses to do group projects. More likely, she doesn't understand how much of what she does is part of a group project. Our economic productivity is heavily interconnected and cooperative. That's a big reason why schools make us do those lame group projects. Adults usually have to work in teams with others.
It concludes on a point of disgust towards the notion "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," but that does not correspond to the anecdote justifying that disgust. In the anecdote, the free riders allegedly were able to contribute, they just refused to do so because they out prisoner dilemmaed her. They weren't giving according to their ability. Finally, a good portion of her critique of socialism is more a critique of majoritarian democracy - a sort of elitist disgust at being outvoted by buffoons - than it is of socialism.