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> Why nobody talks about that? People talk about it all the time. Everything gets blamed on capitalism these days. Problem is nobody is offering good alternati
by CivBase 2y ago
> Why nobody talks about that?
People talk about it all the time. Everything gets blamed on capitalism these days. Problem is nobody is offering good alternatives. Good luck finding one.
- nathan_compton 2y agoThis is a really weird thing to say when there are clearly alternatives that work better than whatever is happening in the U.S.
- tracker1 2y agoSuch as..?
- nathan_compton 2y agoAny country with socialized medicine?
- tracker1 2y agoMost countries with socialized medicine are still capitalist nations.
- hgs3 2y ago> Problem is nobody is offering good alternatives. You can find alternatives, but no politician wants to run experiments proving or disapproving them. They'd rather argue them instead. Why not follow the scientific method and run a small experiment on a subsection of a country to see how it pans out? Why not collect the data, review it, and try again if there's enough variables? The reason I suspect we don't see this thinking is (1) politicians, at least in the US, are predominantly wealthy Ivy League Lawyers trained to "solve" problems through arguing - they are not scientists trained to run experiments, and (2) in every political system the folks who rise to power are those who benefit from the current system and therefore have no reason to risk changing it.