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> half a million homeless Americans is far better than the current alternatives of Russia or China except that the USA is a rich country, from the point of vie

> half a million homeless Americans is far better than the current alternatives of Russia or China except that the USA is a rich country, from the point of view of capitalist competition, for more than 100 years. If a place like the USA cannot solve the plague of misery and homelessness (not to talk about the lack of basic health care) then what can you expect from the rest? It is definitely a failure of capitalism to solve these fundamental issues. The USA and other countries should seriously rethink their economic system before it is too late.

zer00eyz 3y ago
>>> solve the plague of misery Im not sure what this is, but there is no place or point in history where a mass of people has been more well off than the US at present. Fraud, corruption, homelessness were always going to have some degree of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905889 What is interesting is that there are places in the states where they are doing a great job with homelessness. Houston springs to mind, and that (politically) is shocking till you look at why and how they fixed it... They removed the incentive to compete, and changed how people are placed.
- coliveira 3y ago
  > but there is no place or point in history where a mass of people has been more well off than the US at present. That is so false, just compare present USA to USA 30 years ago.