Socialists have this powerful "intellectual zombie" attribute.
No matter how many times they are refuted, they just continue from the basis of their flawed arguments, and the smug assumption that they're right and good always. It's just relentless like a hoard or zombies that have no grasp of reality beyond replicating themselves.
"The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." - Adam Smith on Bitcoin
In the Fallow Field
I went down on my hands and knees
Looking for trees,
Twin leaves that, sprung from seeds,
Were now too big
For stems much thinner than a twig.
These soon with chamomile and clover
And other fallow weeds
Would be turned over;
And I was thinking how
It was a pity someone should not know
That a great forest fell before the plough.
- Andrew Young