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Socialism implies a lot more centralization than capitalism.
The answer is, like always, included in the question.
While socialism is to be ‘implemented’ – by a ‘central figure’, capitalism is an environment. A place where the deciding agents – the entrepreneurs, ‘make it happen’.

Hence socialism – which is a ‘thing’, to be implemented, not an environment for entrepreneurs to roam ‘free’ – will eventually fail. No matter how well intended the implementor, nor how hard it tries to make it happen.

In capitalism, only the entrepreneurs might fail. When the market is no longer free – oligo or mono poly, the situation closely resembles a socialist one. Things go south. Because the decision making agents are too few and far apart – no longer able to cover all corners, just as their socialist counterparts.

Comparing socialism with capitalism is like pitting an apple against agriculture.

An apple, all apples, will eventually become rotten. No matter how hard one might try to preserve it.
Agriculture, on the other hand, will yield according to the available resources and the effort put in by those involved in it.

https://www.quora.com/If-Socialism-has-always-been-poorly-implemented-why-wasnt-Capitalism

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Besides the fact that calling someone an “ignorant” is a very ‘Trump’ thing to do in the first place, what if the real problem is that we have allowed ‘it’ to become a ‘system’ in the first place?

This way, after the process of learning and teaching has become a ‘system’, the ‘open market’ for ideas has become a very well – actually very badly – controlled oligopoly.
Learning means seeing and understanding the world around us. Teaching means passing around, and forward, the above mentioned knowledge and the meaning we’ve made out of it. Which ‘passed around knowledge and meaning’ shapes the way the ‘students’ go further. Deepen the knowledge and build future meaning.
In fact the very breadth of our species future depends on how past learned knowledge and built meaning had been passed around.
And what we have today, the current ‘social unease’, is the product of the manner in which we have been taught to see the world. Of the meaning we find in it.

Trump, as a social phenomenon, is nothing but yet another symptom of the current ‘malaise’. The incapacity of the contemporary society to make room for everybody is, simply put, a consequence of  information no longer flowing freely around. Of information being, tighter and tighter, controlled by the ‘system’.
The simple fact that Trump, if elected, has promised to put his stamp on the ‘system’ only proves this point…

Coming back to the ‘system’, the only way to fix it is to open it up, widely. If we continue to allow ‘it’ to divide us into ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ (read ‘properly educated’ and ‘ignorant’) we will actually perpetuate ‘the problem’.

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