There is a reason this has been relegated to pop-culture status.
If that is not enough to appreciate just how far our living standards have advanced, much less the devastation that socialism lays on societies, try living like people did in 1883 Montana. Many of us romanticize the simplicity of that kind of a life from the comfort of our air conditioned offices or even while out on our weekend camping trips. The reality is that life in 1883 was brutal, and it was little different than how people lived for thousands of years before the emergence of the Enlightenment.
