Recently, I have been contemplating when socialism and totalitarianism can work. I think it can work in very, very specific cases with small groups of people.
How would a family work, for example, on a free-market system? Can a proper human being be raised without some form of coercion from family? Perhaps the families who have decent incentive systems bypass coercion. My family was totalitarian, I think -- or at least, I thought so as a teenager. I know other families had semi-market based systems, though not all actions/transactions between family members were voluntary. (e.g., stay late past curfew, get grounded. No freedom there. etc.)
I've been thinking that politicians take their familial models of governance and apply their experience to government. The result of their efforts is probably the nanny state. Where else to people find the need to create rules all the time in order to control behavior? It starts in the family, I think.
Just a theory.
This is an attempt at humor, but here's a family that uses loss-of-freedom to police children:
... Watch, she'll become the next Nancy Pelosi.
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