Thoughts

1. Capitalism is the creation of wealth.  Socialism is the redistribution of wealth.  Wealth is a means to an end, not an end in itself.  With Capitalism, you have hope for achieving that end.  With Socialism, seizing wealth is an end in itself and its own end comes when they run out of other people's money--when all hope is lost.
2. Socialists have to demonize wealth creation in order to explain why Capitalism fails.  But Capitalism doesn't fail if it isn't tried.  Socialists strive to make sure that Capitalism should not be allowed to try.
3. People may never get rich, but over time, peoples do.  Poor people today are richer than the greatest kings of yesteryear.  The peoples of today are richer than the peoples of the past.
4. Success doesn't come automatically with the mere passage of time.  People lived the same way for thousands of years.  The most recent times have been the exception--- not the rule.  The lot of humanity was summed up with the quote that "the natural state of mankind...solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".   The industrial revolution was run by robber barons who made everybody rich in comparison with the past.
5. Socialists believe the proposition that all men are created to be slaves to the state, and are dedicated to the proposition that all must be equally miserable.