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You have no idea how weird and empty this kind of thinking sounds to a european. Capitalism makes for such a cold world.

• marcoperaza 11y ago
  > Capitalism makes for such a cold world. This "cold world" is the most prosperous, least impoverished, and most peaceful of all time. I'll take it. The moral argument for socialism is easy, but it ignores the dynamics that create innovation and wealth in the first place, ultimately hurting everyone. Insurance is the free market solution to making sure that drugs are widely available. A little bit of insurance regulation goes a long way to ensuring that a whole population has access to care.
  • Numberwang 11y ago
    I'm a Swede and I'd talk our social democracy over the american system any day of the week. I'm glad though that all of your population have access to care, I did not know that. We do too though. Capitalism is a great idea. But if you let it be the only idea of your system it will hollow out it's citizens.
    • marcoperaza 11y ago
      Don't believe all of the sordid descriptions of what life in the US is like. That narrative is currently en vogue, and some news outlets with an agenda (or a demographic to please) are pushing it rather aggressively, but it's not really accurate. Americans give 10% of GDP to private social charities. That dwarfs all Europeans countries. We have a preference for voluntary and private charity. Europeans prefer compulsory and centralized.