Utter and complete nonsense. The allocation of honey is distributed according to need. This is a socialist principle. The fact that bees organise as a group/collective is also strongly socialist. Yes as individuals the bees go out and work and bring back pollen/nectar and contribute it surrendering its value to the collective because they understand that only as a collective can they survive. Pretty twisted logic from the article trying to argue that bees are a model of free enterprise when all bees of any particular role have exactly the same status and no increased individual reward for greater success in performance. In reality bees operate in a mixed model economy as evolution has proven it the most functional and robust - a combination of individual competition and collective effort. Libertarians cannot even learn from nature they are so blinded by their narrow view of the world. Finally humans are not bees but for human economies a similar mixture of socialist/collective and free market competition has proven the most competitive in the contest that goes on between nations for dominance in the acquisition of wealth and resources. Nations with good universal healthcare and education and strong rule of law and property rights are more attractive to people than those that don't...and are generally more prosperous. In human economies some basic infrastructures are more efficiently provisioned via state provision (eg universal healthcare, roading, environmental and food standards, natural disaster insurance, law courts, police and military) while most other markets are better suited to open and free market competition.