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While I wasn’t saying “communism is good,” I was saying: Capitalism is bad, actually. If you want lived experiences I’m the son of two working class parents who have been repeatedly broken down by the system they work so hard to uphold. Both are always a few paycheques from homeless in one of the richest countries on earth. You’re never going to convince me. :)
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basebro.eth
@basebro.eth
you're confusing capitalism with a dysfunctional European welfare state ruled by elites who don't care about you. That's not capitalism, and even, the small measure of capitalism that your parents had made your lives orders of magnitude better than the lives of people who lived under Communism(The Great Leap Forward in China which killed 10s of millions, Stalin in the Soviet Union, Venezuela, North Korea etc.) Just the fact that you are in the position you are in right now is proof that Capitalism works. Also, I don't think you appreciate how horrible life is for most people in history. Living paycheck to paycheck is pretty good in the grand scheme of things, although we should always strive for more, and Capitalism will enable this.
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@chainleft
"Real capitalism was never tried"
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basebro.eth
@basebro.eth
Capitalism has been tried many times. -Singapore -Hong Kong -Japan (went from being completely destroyed after WW2 to the second largest economy in the world within several decades). -Germany (completely destroyed to largest economy in Europe within several decades). -South Korea vs. North Korea -Taiwan -Israel -UAE (Just getting started). -Western Europe Vs. Eastern Europe All of these are free market economies. Those are just a small fraction of countries that experienced massive growth due to capitalism. Those are all explicitly market based economies although many of them have welfare states built on top of a Capitalist economy What you're describing are actually "first world problems". Not to say that your parents didn't suffer, but it was probably due to socialist policies and interventions in the economy.
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