hey could we all get on board w a mutually agreeable definition of “socialism”? stephens suggests that having a minimum wage or a higher than average public spending to gdp ratio would qualify a country as socialist, which is probably alarming to many actual socialists.  qt @bretstephensnyt "in the age of alexandria ocasio-cortez it has to be explained all over again. why does socialism never work? because, as margaret thatcher explained, “eventually you run out of other people’s money.” my column in @nytopinion: