Somehow we need a balance between socialism and capitalism, at least until something technological exists to allow everyone to exist and have basic needs met.

I feel like all socialism removes the drive to succeed, and that all capitalism exists to steal the value of labor from the workers.

Brains and hard work must be rewarded, but we cannot let that take away from basic human needs. Everyone needs access to shelter, food and water, health care, and even the means to profit from work.

I don't think that 50% of the population should control 99% of all the wealth, thats where we are at in the US right now. The top 10% control 77%, and even worse, the richest 1% hold about 38% of all privately held wealth in the United States.

From [qz.com]

In 2015, the most recent year for which Quartz could access this information, the median member of the US Congress was worth at least $1.1 million. That is more than 12 times greater than the net wealth of the median US household. And that doesn’t tell the whole story, since the chambers of congress are not equal in wealth terms. The median net worth of a senator was $3.2 million, versus $900,000 for members of the House of Representatives.

So it kinda looks like the top 10% are currently running the government here in the US.

I am not really following your logic. I am a socialist and my labour party are the party of socialism which crudely put is
"one person one dinner no one has two dinners till everyone has had one dinner"

Do you have sources to substantiate these claims?

Momma says capitalism is the devil, just like foosball.

The human nature thing that the Right often spews (all people are selfish etc) is rubbish.

Not all humans are selfish. The poor give the most to charity and people come together during natural disasters.

All roads lead to the ruling class, who control our thoughts using the cultural hegemony (Gramsci) and the media (which they own). Every day we wake up to their voice.

Any business that is not a co-operative is exploitation.

There will always be more people than jobs because of the Reserve Army Of Labour. (Marx/Engels). Alluded to by Thatcher as 'natural unemployment'.

Capitalism is inherently flawed leading to regular crises.

More worryingly, the ruling class will always prefer fascism over socialism.

As a child and grandchild of coal miners, fortunate enough to have been born into Britain's post-war socialist experiment, the welfare state (now, like the New Deal, being dismantled at an ever-increasing pace, or handed over to privatization the better to swell the corporate bottom line) I was given an affordable roof over my head and access to free health care, protected from the diseases of poverty - such as rickets, now making a significant come-back in twenty-first century Britain and the US - and allowed, unlike my parents and grandparents, to continue education beyond the age of fourteen and so to have the means to step up from manual labor and into a profession.

In my experience, and those of hundreds of thousands like me, socialism works.

One problem with any system that makes them all doomed to fail .....humans