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If you think Capitalism is bad, just try Socialism. Instead of making X amount of people miserable, it makes almost everyone miserable. The world is not perfec
by powertower 13y ago
If you think Capitalism is bad, just try Socialism. Instead of making X amount of people miserable, it makes almost everyone miserable.
The world is not perfect, there is no utopia, and whatever you might think, Capitalism is about as good of product/market fit (human-nature/society-type fit) as you can get in a world that's not based on small hunter/gatherer groups.
It's also keeps us in a state of competition, which is the driving force for innovation and progress like nothing else is.
But don't believe me, just check how all the previous Marxsist and Socialist societies in history turned out.
- mcv 13y agoThe balance is of course somewhere in the middle. The good parts of capitalism with the good parts of socialism. You get a much nicer society than with either one t the extreme.
- ahomescu1 13y agoHow do you get just the good parts of X (for any X), without the bad parts? In most cases, you just get X as a package.
- mcv 13y agoSometimes, but not in this case. Plenty of northern European countries (Sweden is a popular example) mix the good bits of capitalism and socialism just fine, while avoiding the worst excesses. It's not perfect, but they're certainly on a much more productive path than either socialist or capitalist extremists.
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