What does Socialism look like to you?

[NoOneMan]

34. Cuba's GDP has doubled in the last 10 years

This is while they are isolated from their largest potential trading partner. Their GDP has consistently trended upward in the last 50 years.

If they have no growth incentive, please tell when they plan to stop growing for good.

if it were able to develop sustainable agriculture (as Cuba is doing)

"Sustainable agriculture" is somewhat of an oxymoron FYI. Exploiting land for energy surplus will always lead to conditions that create a larger demand for energy.

Any economic system is largely the same. It demands that I pick up a rake, hoe, hammer or pen and work to put food in my belly; food that would take far less effort to put in my belly if I were living harmoniously with nature. Economic systems separate man from nature, force them to work at least twice as much, and then exploits their labor "for the common good" (also known as rewards their energy expenditure with less "goods" than that energy can potentially net on its own in a natural setting). But this extra work never translates into an objective common good, as community it broken, sickness increases, humans are enslaved, and more complex problems appear than would exist in an egalitarian, communal tribe (what we observe in natural). All that exploited energy just fuels growth, which fuels demand for more energy and breeds rampant problems.

Economic systems exist to fix the problems their existence creates and to grow larger (as well as to allow elites to exploit energy). Their existence is insufficient at improving the natural condition of the human race. Further, their existence has proven to be one of the greatest threats to the human race that there ever has been (illustrated by climate change)

If socialism allowed--no, promoted--me to "drop out" with a group of friends and go back to nature, then it would be different. But as of now, socialism wants to put a tool in my hand and turn me into a cog, as every other economic system does, in the name of growth and "goodness". I'm glad to be a recovering socialist