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As someone who grew up in the Soviet Union, I find that people who complain about capitalism have not typically experienced another form of economic system. Mo
by optymizer 3y ago
As someone who grew up in the Soviet Union, I find that people who complain about capitalism have not typically experienced another form of economic system.
Most recently, my Uber driver was a 20-something year old from Brazil who thought capitalism was evil and seriously wanted to bring back communism. She went on a long rant about capitalism, how we need a revolution and how communism was going to make things better.
- "Have you lived in Communism?"
- "No, but I read about it"
The grass is always greener, especially if you read books that tell you how it's so much greener on the other side.
- defrost 3y agoYou make a fair point, who in their right mind would want to live in a centralised command economy claiming to impose a dictatorship of the proletariat on some mythical road to an imagined communism. Have there been any actual communist states? For that matter, is the US a "capitalist state" or just something flawed in the vicinity of an ideal. People can rightly complain of Citizens United and extreme wealth disparity without wanting some farcical wealth leveling via a Bolshevist revolution and a bunch of tossers rabbiting on about Marxism | Leninism while imprisoning millions.
- samstave 3y agoThe USA is the "Kardashians" of countries. Its all fake. Lies, ego, corruption, vapid vanity.
- busterarm 3y agoLATAM is a total headscratcher for me. Much of the region is socialist. Much of the region is deeply corrupt. Citizens protest endlessly against their governments for said corruption. Citizens think the solution to their problems is more government control over their economies...by the same corrupt government that they're protesting. I think the real problem is that people in the region deeply think that their own well being is somebody else's problem to solve. Taking control over your own life is anathema.