I am shocked to see how many anti-capitalist’s there are these days. Capitalism is quite frankly the great western experiment that has historically been proven to promote technological and social progress through the understanding that hard work and freedom to communicate ideas brings success. The opposite would be forced ideology and mandated work schedules - this has historically brought famine, genocide and mass technological decline.
Let’s keep it clean and post a single question per post so it can be more easily digested.
There’s the issue, you only give a shit about your own country. Capitalism doesn’t care about borders. Foxconn being in China is proof of that. Yes in American capitalism may work well for anyone but America and the countries like it are only a fraction of the people in existence. Unfortunately, and as many capitlist try to ignore, there is not infinite resources. Capitlist argue that by virtue of luck and nothing else a few are entitled to the means of survival for many. Yes it takes hard work to succeed in capitalism, but hard work isn’t the same as success. “keep working and you will be rich someday” is the carrot the few wealthy dangle in front of the gullible masses to keep them running on the treadmills. This ignores the fact that being rich is pointless and pursuing it by depriving others of the things they need to live is abhorrent. Capitalism breeds wealth, but wealth cannot exist without poverty. There is no rich without poor. You can’t pretend away the lives of thousands of people because they aren’t in your country.
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I do not follow. There is no set amount of money in the world, so you don’t need to take something away from another to make them wealthy. Money is dynamic in this respect. It is not like Monopoly, the bills multiply. As for having a world government - I think the best choice would be capitalism. This world view would only be true if we traded in something like gold and everyone kept it in their safes.
As for poverty in the world today - it has never been less no matter how you look at it. The numbers I found point to less than 3% of the worlds population that are in absolute poverty. Let me know if you find something different. Relative poverty is a tricky thing to define, but not being able to eat and feed your child levels of poverty are very low. Id say humanity is doing very good right now - regardless of what the media is removed about.
When I hear someone talking about communisms and how great things will be - I am always reminded of the USSR in the 1920. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4076244/Distressing-photos-1920s-Russian-famine-turned-hopeless-peasants-cannibals-five-million-people-starved-death.html