The goal is to evenly distribute the wealth such that everyone has what they need to survive and then if you still have enough wealth left over (if the wealthy class were dismantled we would), you make sure everyone has enough to be comfortable. You take the business assets and you share ownership with the people working in those businesses.

I think that's a very nice idea. But I think you're going to have a very hard time getting enough people to support it.

For a very long time I considered myself a democratic socialist. I joined the Democratic Socialists of America eight years ago, but I left after just a few years. To me, democratic socialism just made so much sense. I thought, this is the solution. I was convinced that Democratic socialism, along with environmental sustainability, was the future. Boy, was I wrong. Very few people shared my view. After a while I realized it was futile.

Most people who would read this cartoon don't want to overthrow and replace the system, they just want the money. They'd prefer the $4 million, but they'd settle for the $50 /hr. You can tell them there's a better way, but your words will just fall on deaf ears. They ain't interested. They just want the money.

There won't be an awareness campaign followed by a wave of socialist political movements that sweep the parliaments and governments of the world. There won't be a glorious proletarian revolution, which sees the workers seize the means of production. A post capitalist society will one day emerge, but it will only be after capitalism has collapsed, taking the modern world down with it. Maybe on the other side of that, democratic socialism might be possible, in some small pockets of what's left of humanity. But it will only be on small scales. Democratic socialism is incompatible with empires, and other large, complex civilizations. So any democratic socialist societies that do exist will be relatively small. Not that's a bad thing. Not at all. In fact, I think it's much more sustainable. But that means no dynamic, fast growing, expansionist civilizations. Again, better, more sustainable, but much different than the world we know today.

But if this happens at all, it'll be long after I'm dead.