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I wish people advocating these views would visit Eastern Europe and ask them how well Communism prevented disparities and despair.
by influx 4y ago
I wish people advocating these views would visit Eastern Europe and ask them how well Communism prevented disparities and despair.
- zpeti 4y agoNo no. The way I would do communism would be good!
- slaw 4y agoThat wasn't real communism.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoI wish people advocating capitalism would visit my hometown in rural southeast US and see it too honestly. 18% of children and 25% of elderly adults under the poverty line. Every single family I know of directly touched by at least one of the wave after wave of addiction crises we've been having. We aren't better you just don't have to look at it.
- slaw 4y agoPeople in your town can keep fruits of their labor? Do what they want with their money?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoHave you ever lived an entire family on $18k/year? What you want to do with your money is completely moot.
- slaw 4y agoIt is definition of capitalism. You get money for work and spend on what you want.
- mrguyorama 4y agoDo what they want with their money, like not be able to afford a home, or a means of transportation, or adequate food. Real fucking freedom you have there.
- slaw 4y agoSo you don't have capitalism there.
- twh270 4y agoThe problem is that, no matter the organization or system we devise, people who want power and control sooner or later (and usually it's sooner) find a way to work their way to the top, where they can f*ck over everyone else. Until we fix that problem, the best we can do is to pick systems and ways of organizing that tend to limit the ability of these people to get control.
- slowhand09 4y agoWhat town/state are we talking about? Is it a mining town where the mines are shutdown? Is it a mill town where the mills are shutdown? Is it a auto manufacturing town where the cars went obsolete? Agricultural town where the farms are gone?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoYou mean sort of attention to context and nuance that wasn't part of the conversation when we were talking about other economic systems? For a people who won the cold war y'all are very defensive about this whole thing lol. Like the slightest acknowledgement that this system also sucks for a lot of people means we're headed straight for the gulags again.