Instead of calling my argument horrendous with no justification, maybe you could try engaging with it. I, too, would like to just call you a right-wing libertarian nutjob or something like that and move on with life, but hopefully something better can happen. :)
> Either way the child is inheriting economic wealth they didn't produce
There isn't a whole lot. But you're missing the point of parenting. Hint: it's not financial support. You can't write a baby a check for $1M, plop it down in an empty house and expect it to live a good life. After you die you're not doing any of the stuff that actually makes having a parent valuable to a child relative to receiving the necessary financial support (which will not even be available to working class children under your proposed system).
Maybe if you were confident your children would be adequately taken care of if you died, you wouldn't have to work so hard saving up a nest egg and would actually have more time to be a parent.
What you're describing sounds like the experience in any developing country. You haven't given any evidence that it's due to socialism. (Though comparing to my experiences in developing capitalist countries I would say Cuba has a very different economic 'feeling' to it, which I would argue is superior for the level of material development.)
> Other parts of latin america and caribbean might be poor but Cuba could have done so much better. You can tell they are a strong-willed industrious people who work hard.
Wait so if they had capitalism the Cuban economy would be better than other poor Latin American economies because they work harder? At least you're not making the classic disingenuous comparison between the economic development of imperialist superpowers and socialist nations that started off poor...
> Cuba and Vietnam have the same system in operation. Ask anyone in the exile communities in the United States.
There's a huge selection bias in asking emigrants or exiles or refugees or whatever you prefer to call them. If you are a militant Marxist-Leninist in Cuba you probably don't want to leave.
> That's obviously not a great situation. Yet we, as in American companies, vastly incentivize such systems by shipping trillions of dollars worth of production to China. So we pride ourselves on more humane standards, yet send trillions of dollars to the lowest common denominator on labor that's a hair's breadth above slavery? This never made any sense to me.
That's because American capitalists _don't_ value human and workers rights. And to a large degree, the American labor movement doesn't either - as long as it can escape the oppression of the American capitalists at home and have cheap consumer goods as a result of the export of capital to poorer countries.
The only ways to alleviate this within the capitalist system is to either decrease the mobility of capital, or increase the mobility of labor (i.e. immigration). Unfortunately, neither of these are in the immediate interests of the American working class.
If you are comparing to Go then just regular Haskell has all the same capabilities and more (lightweight threads and communication primitives, plus extra cool stuff like software transactional memory). Cloud Haskell is trying to put it more in the Erlang camp where you can distribute beyond a single process transparently, but I don't think it is well maintained or really production ready.
> Either way the child is inheriting economic wealth they didn't produce
There isn't a whole lot. But you're missing the point of parenting. Hint: it's not financial support. You can't write a baby a check for $1M, plop it down in an empty house and expect it to live a good life. After you die you're not doing any of the stuff that actually makes having a parent valuable to a child relative to receiving the necessary financial support (which will not even be available to working class children under your proposed system).
Maybe if you were confident your children would be adequately taken care of if you died, you wouldn't have to work so hard saving up a nest egg and would actually have more time to be a parent.