The dream has never been to work hard so everyone can stay poor. Socialism sounds nice to some. Everybody shares the money and rewards equally no matter what their contribution. But the simple reality is that it does not work. The most obvious reason is that there is no motivation for any of the citizens in a socialistic society to work hard.
Few people have the drive to work hard and contribute if there is no reward.
With socialism I could be the laziest person in the country and receive the same as the hardest working person. Another bad point is that socialism takes a massive government to redistribute all the wealth. This leads to a lot of waste and corruption that only requires more and more money. Socialism only benefits the lazy. I will give Mr. Rothem an example.