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Much of Marx's critiques of capitalism make some sense. The problem is nobody has come up with a better system for lifting people out of poverty.
by tsotha 14y ago
Much of Marx's critiques of capitalism make some sense. The problem is nobody has come up with a better system for lifting people out of poverty.
- pjzedalis 14y agoWhy does capitalism have to lift anyone out of poverty? The opportunity to own assets and control your own production sometimes provides the means to do so. Just because enough impoverished people are not becoming rich per year does not mean capitalism is not working as intended.
- TruthElixirX 14y agoLess people are living in poverty now more than ever: http://www.worldvision.org/news/worldwide-fewer-people-live-extreme-poverty http://www.worldvision.org/news/worldwide-fewer-people-live-... Its just that wealth is being more evenly distributed and the U.S. is feeling some of that pressure.
- cantankerous 14y agoEvenly distributed across the world, you mean. The pressure discussed in this article and probably most of this thread doesn't have to do with that distribution, though. It has to do with the distribution in the US, which has most definitely skewed towards the top. Wealth might be on some trend to level out world-wide, but what's happening here right now and over the past few decades is not that global trend. It's an American trend.
- tsotha 14y agoThe trend in the US has nothing to do with capitalism per se. We added ten million Central and South American peasants to the bottom end of the job market over the last twenty years or so. I don't know why anyone would be surprised to see a bifurcation of income strata.
- anigbrowl 14y agoWhy does capitalism have to lift anyone out of poverty? Because poor people tend to get sick of their lot and revolt sooner or later. It's been a problem for monarchs through the ages.
- frogpelt 14y agoThere will always be impoverished people. Capitalism provides the best opportunity to choose not to be.
- lostlogin 14y agoIs it possible to travel and believe this 100%? Capitalism might be the best option but I'm not that confident after seeing the so-called progress it has inflicted on a lot of places. I don't know what a better option is, but I the warts of capitalism sure are ugly.
- tsotha 14y ago>Capitalism might be the best option but I'm not that confident after seeing the so-called progress it has inflicted on a lot of places. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "so-called progress".
- lostlogin 14y agoI mean that I have seen the opposite of progress. Native people with formerly proud cultures. Not technologically advanced, sure, but long traditions and ones anyone should be proud to have (or had, past tense, in this case). And these groups appeared completely devastated and exploited.