should capitalism be in place instead of socialism

"Let me start out my argument by saying this. There are many people in this world, some of which are naturally smarter than others, some of which have more of a natural desire to work than others, which is okay" I agree. "Capitalism really gives people an incentive to work. What Capitalism does is it gives room for people to be high achievers. It gives the smart people a opportunity to have an excellent salary and really what Capitalism does is it gives these high achievers a chance to be really successful." you are dumbing this down to much. Capitalism is much more complex then this. "Socialism takes away this opportunity. It takes all of the money that people earn and distributes it equally among everyone in the country" That is not what Socialism does, what you are referring too is communism, a different type of government. "This can run into a couple of problems. One it is stealing. By taking money that does not belong to you from someone else that is stealing, even if it is being given to someone else, it's still stealing." You are looking at morality as if it is black and white, there always is a gray area in between morals. It is considered morally wrong to lie usually, but white lies are considered ok. The same is true for just about everything (though of course worse crimes such as murder or rape would have a MUCH smaller (and to be honest near impossible for some of these crimes) amount of reasons why they would be allowed.) including stealing, but once again, this is not what Socialism entails. "Another problem with socialism is that it takes away the motivation for the really smart people to work. It gives them the mindset that no matter how hard they work they will make just as much as everyone else. It doesn't give them the desire to work. They can think that they can now not work at all now and still make the same amount of money. And these really smart people can be business owners without the desire to work. These can be people providing employment for other people but now have know desire to work and eventually decide to quit work. Then you have thousands of people without work because these high businesses and high achievers quit work. This is not just high achievers. This is everyone. They can know that they will make the same amount of money as anyone else without working causing the amount of total income of the whole country to go down. This makes the average income per person drop dramatically. And if the true geniuses quit their job amazing inventions will go down. The electronics companies would go down." for one, keep it simple. Just state "People would be less willing to work knowing that they would be paid the same amount." but of course this is not what Socialism is so it does not really matter. "Now I am not saying that providing for those who aren't as smart and talented and can't work as hard is a bad thing. We already have ways like charities, food banks, and service organizations that can do things that serve the poor. I think that we should always be helping out these people. But socialism is not the answer. Stealing is not the answer. We can support the poor without stealing. Taking away the opportunity for high achievers to accomplish what they want to do is just not right." The problem here is that we should work to get everyone to a good state, not just keep them living, but with true capitalism in place no one would do this. In fact people would actively try to stop this as too make sure they stay on top. For my main counterargument. I propose that a mix of both capitalism and socialism is what is necessary to create a successful country. This is because both true capitalism and true socialism would cause problems. True capitalism is the idea of "everyone for themselves". A person could create a defective product and sell it without risk to themselves because true capitalism would make it so that anyone can sell what they want without any standards. If it killed someone, it would be that persons fault for buying the product. And I won't go too far into Socialism because it is a very complex subject that would take more characters then I have left to summarize accurately. But the main point of it is too give the workers as much power as the boss. Workers Unions are Socialistic creations. It is needed to make sure that workers have a voice and don't get scammed out of their money by their bosses. So to conclude this round a mix of both Socialism as well as Capitalism are necessary to create a well working society.