I had an easy discussion about this with my 11 year old son, or anyway about socialism. He was parroting what he's heard in school. My example was would you like to have your grades shared...work on a project really hard, and some kid that didn't gets to share your grades. The vid game example would work if the child had chores to earn time playing but their siblings didn't do any chores and they still had to share the time with them.

Nothing. A 10 year old has no business trying to engage any adult in such a way.

All economic systems are flawed to a certain extent . But capitalism has brought more countries out of poverty than any other system ever . As I heard someone say ,and I'm paraphrasing , our poor are the richest poor in the world . And that poor child making games for someone else would be very happy to have something to eat and a home to go to . You can't start out at the top . In the future his or her child would do better than they did and so on , so that one day some other child will be making games for them and would start their rise out of poverty . Now you say look at China . But you have ask yourself where is China getting it's money from . Capitalist countries . I don't think communism could survive all by it self

While picking myself up off the floor from the shock of such a question from a 10 yr old, I would ask him to describe one or both, and go from there.

I would be honest and say that communism has directly lead to the deaths of tens of millions of people, in part because when people speak out against their government under communism they are sent to gulags. That millions more died from famine because "central planning" may sound good but actually meant they came and took the food away from the people who grew it and they starved. And then I would say that despite its flaws, the system we have is far better than communism.

When my son was maybe 8 or 9 (still in elementary) school, he heard a teacher complain about a need for some sort of program to provide some "right" she thought everyone deserved, like free housing or medical care, I don't recall.

He told me he asked her, "Who'll pay? How will we pay?"
He said she leaned down and said, "The government will pay"
He was perplexed. "How will the government get the money?"
She replied, "They'll just print it. They can do that..."

He said he thought about it for a minute and said, "Well, if they print all that money, won't there be a lot of made up money and won't that make our money worth less and won't that be a like a tax?"

She told him he didn't understand anything. Hahaha.

I thought he figured it out pretty well. I dreamed he'd grow up and be an Ivy Leaguer on scholarship and end up as the head of some big financial institution.

That didn't work out per the dream, but he did pretty darn good. He went to Texas A&M and just graduated. He's an entrepreneur, who is still outthinking every liberal I've ever met.

You handled it well. I have a real problem with children that young being taught anything to do with ideologies. Let them be children for Pete's sake!!

I would help him experience what I did , when I was 10 years old . Turn the soil and plant a garden . Tend it all Spring and Summer . At harvest , someone else takes half of what he raised . That would be his first experience with Communism ..

You did well!

Excellent way to let him know. Show him what he has because of capitalism and what socialism takes away. His parents most likely domt know the difference either.

What you said was good. Then I would ask if he gets allowance? then ask if he would like to give most of it to a child who does not get one and see what he says. Especially, if he has to do chores to earn his allowance.

Looks like you handled that just fine.

Good response, especially of you also took his game box or PC from him because the other child probably didn't have anything to play it on