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The state takes 63% of our income here in France, and there are still homeless people. I’d say the capitalists do a better job.
by eastbound 3y ago
The state takes 63% of our income here in France, and there are still homeless people.
I’d say the capitalists do a better job.
- louwrentius 3y agoYou know that France is a capitalist society right?
- kelnos 3y agoCapitalist, yes, but with many more socialist features than the US.
- activitypea 3y agoMy impression that welfare state and social support systems are on par with their neighbors, they just have a stronger culture of labor rights.
- gbanfalvi 3y agoHow are capitalists addressing homelessness? Have you read about homelessness in SF and the bay area?
- eastbound 3y agoCaritative actions are part of capitalism. I donate voluntarily to charities, this is part of capitalism. Capitalism doesn’t prevent people from having a soul. Capitalism is the framework that makes all those people work together: The nun, the family guy, the corporate shark, the idealist who can buy land and create an inefficient community based on non-monetary exchange. Capitalism also makes us globally quite rich (by virtue of allowing us to simply take the revenue we generate in our startups), which affords us the luxury of giving 63% to the state. Supposedly in exchange for the state taking care of poor people. It’s the capitalism that allows me that money. So I get it, you pin everything bad on capitalism. It’s just that you allow CEOs to pactise with the state to remove freedoms from you. Meanwhile you forget that this unprecedented lifestyle improvement since the industrial revolution, it’s also due to capitalism.