[m4nu3l]

> If we had enough in the 50s

By what standard? In the 50s a lot of things didn't even exist.

> then if we took a hit on GDP now when we have more productivity than the 50s, then we can take care of everyone.

If the hit is closer to 100% than to 0% then no. Examples: The USSR, Maoist China, North Korea.

[tehjoker]

Food, shelter, education, etc. Those things existed in the 1950s, we have nicer versions now unevenly distributed.

I guess you're just an ideological anti-communist.

[m4nu3l]

Of course I'm an ideological anti-communist. I prefer not starving to death like in the great famine - which happened in the 50s-60s in a society that applied the principles you are proposing.