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"Capitalism is the problem" is a statement so broad an non-specific that it can not be a lie. Certainly any economic system has problems. Saying that a specifi
by elil17 4y ago
"Capitalism is the problem" is a statement so broad an non-specific that it can not be a lie. Certainly any economic system has problems.
Saying that a specific race is inherently evil is a specific factual claim (one that few people actually make).
- luckylion 4y ago> Certainly any economic system has problems Sure, but there's a huge gap between "X has problems" and "X is _the_ problem", i.e. if only we removed X, everything would be fine. It's absurd.
- elil17 4y agoI do not assume that people mean "if we only removed capitalism, everything would be fine" when they say "capitalism is the problem." I assume they mean something more like "replacing capitalism with [y] would make things much better than marginal changes to capitalism" where [y] is probably democratic socialism, or that they mean something like "most problems can be traced back to capitalism and to fix these problems we need to fix capitalism" where "fixing capitalism" means enacting whatever policies the speaker happens to advocate for. Someone saying "it would be better if the US adopted a government closer to the USSR's" is a pretty out there statement and I'm not going to assume that someone means that unless they're pretty clear about it.