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| Adnihil wrote: | | I don't believe capitalism works, not for humanity and not for the environment. Capitalism causes poverty, criminality, and division. People steal, kill, and do all other sorts of horrible things for money. There are more than enough resources to ensure a good life (education, health, safety, even luxury) for everyone, yet instead they're literally getting wasted because more money can be made that way. Money that on its turn is being wasted by just sitting in a bank account and not being used for anything while it could be used to help others (well yeah, it's being used by the banks to make more money and one could argue that the taxes they have to pay, pay for roads and social welfare etc, but this isn't a very efficient way of helping others). |
You think capitalism causes poverty? It was the widespread adoption of capitalism that has brought the world's poverty level down dramatically. Before capitalism, only the aristrocrats of many countries got to live out of poverty. The serfs were held on tight chains and personal property was restricted. The vast majority of people were poor and no middle class really existed. It was the advent of capitalism that brought up the rise of the middle class in the first place. Without free enterprise and the rights to property, no middle class could possibly have formed.
Capitalism is what allowed the USA to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War by bankrupting the Soviets. Their economic structure couldn't handle the pressure of the Cold War's arms race and the space race, which acted as the final nail in the coffin of the Soviet Regime. Without Capitalism, the USA wouldn't have been able to catapult to power after the second world war to begin with. Free enterprise and American exceptionalism were intimately linked to the economic explosion that followed WWII.
Yes capitalism has it's flaws. Consumerism leads towards the degeneration of cultural values at a rapid pace if left unchecked, and consumerism is championed by capitalism. That's the most glaring flaw of capitalism. It's knack at distributing resources towards the most amount of people, compared to pretty much any other economic structure, is in no way a flaw.
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