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Many people know the solution, but it requires dismantling the system that got us into this scenario: capitalism.
by ChristianBundy 9y ago
Many people know the solution, but it requires dismantling the system that got us into this scenario: capitalism.
- arcbyte 9y agoWhat? Dismantling welfare maybe is the solution that "everybody" knows, but it sure as shit isnt dismantling the only economic system that hasn't turned out to be bullshit within a century of trying jt.
- merpnderp 9y agoI don't know how anyone can look at China's transformation over the last 30 years and think capitalism is a problem. When China altered its policies form socialist to free market, it brought a billion people out of abject poverty in less than 20 years. The data doesn't show that there's a better solution to innate human corruption than capitalism.
- mindcrime 9y agoYes, let's discard capitalism so we can live in a socialist utopia like Venezuela.
- RugnirViking 9y agoEven democratic countries that rely almost entirely on natural resources end up pretty awful at some point or other. I'm not going to comment one way or another on how reliance on natural resources does correlate with... unconventional government types and economic policies such as dictatorships and central planning or hypercapitalism