In class on Friday each person was given three pieces of chocolate except for two people, they were given ten pieces. We were then told to play rock paper scissors with everyone in the class and if you lost then you would have to give your opponent a piece of your chocolate. Also when you ran out of all of your chocolates you had to take a seat. I did not like this at all because those who started with ten were harder to eliminate. I also didn't like it because I was eliminated very quickly and didn't like sitting down without any chocolates as I watched people gain more. At the end we were told to give all of our chocolates back and then we were all given three chocolates each and asked if we were to play again would you play. I said that I would not play because I have really bad luck and would rather end up with three chocolates than no chocolates. This activity showed us what communism and socialism was. Communism would be when we were all given three pieces of chocolate because we were all equal. Socialism would be when some people were given three and some were given ten.

Karl Marx believed that the best way to help the poor was to have the government control how much everyone has. He thought that we should have a Utopian society where everyone had the same amount of money and everything was equal. Karl Marx felt like a communist society was the best society. Adam Smith on the other hand thought that society with work itself out. Smith theory was called the invisible hand. It was mainly focused on socialism. If you were to start everyone off unequal with some people having more and some people having less the invisible hand of society with make everything equal helping the people who have less really have more.

In my opinion the idea of socialism is the best because the government steps in to distribute and make sure that everyone has something to start with. Then they get out of the picture and let the people of the community settle everything else out. I think this is best because the government has just the right amount of contribution. The government isn't making sure that everyone is always equal but they are making sure that everyone starts equal and then it is the peoples choice what they do with their own money.