Edit_XYZ wrote:
Capitalism - with highly developed social democracy in several sectors, progressive taxation, etc - is the most successful system known to mankind when it comes to solving said problems.
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Tell that to its victims.
T'Girl wrote:
*** (Does anyone know the plural of "kibbutz?") ***
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That would be
kibbutzim.
TheGoodNews wrote:
Never mind needless economic disparity, geo-political crises or ecological catastrophes.
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Viewing the multi-decade results of the "worker's paradises" of Communist Russia and China,
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1. The People's Republic of China has long since embraced Capitalism as an economic system, whatever rhetoric they may use.
2. It absurd to imagine that all we have is a binary choice between faux-"Communist" totalitarianism (USSR, PRC) on one hand and faux-"democratic" plutocracy on the other.
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Substituting a percentage of people being poor, with everyone being equally poor, nice compromise.
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No. It is a Faustian bargain, a deliberate decision to build a structure that ruins some lives for the benefit of others. A society built like a large-scale
Omelas is neither "nice" nor sustainable.
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.