- Why do presidential candidates (and potential dictators, such as Mussolini) find it advantageous to remain vague about their specific plans until after elections? Why is "the people" not eager to find out specifically and concretely what its leaders can do for it?
- Why do "planned" economies lead to shortages, surpluses, and other economic absurdities that would be inconceivable under capitalism? Should not a system in which "society" plans for itself exhibit more rationality than one where it does not? If "society" produces goods to provide for its "needs," then why should that engine of production break down when wealth is "redistributed" for "society's good"?
- Why does part of a "planned" society seem to try to flee the rest by any means possible—homemade rafts, tunnels, bribery, deception, even flight under gunfire? Why would one part of "society" turn against the whole in this way?
- Why do the most fully socialist governments seem to generate the worst environmental catastrophes (e. g., Chernobyl)? Is a clean, healthy environment not in the best interest of "society"?
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