What Trickle-Down Economics Has Done to the US: The Rich Get All the Money

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7. No one knows if it can work on a large scale, however.

European nations are rather small and tightly-knit culturally. People of each country share a lot of common interests and goals.

The United States, by comparison, is very large with a large scattered population. Culturally, we are all over the place. We also still have racial problems and many other forms of inequality. And each region of the country has their own set of problems where a solution for one region may negatively effect another region. Centralizing power would likely lead to favoritism for certain regions or certain people which would lead to further tension. We would ultimately end up with a lot of the same problems the Soviet Union had. The Soviet Union was very large and had a very culturally-diverse population.

No one has really ever been able to come up with an idea to make communism work for a large, culturally diverse country.