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[–]ctvzbuxr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You seem to be under the illusion that we live in capitalism. Tell me, does all the government regulations, taxes and money printing scream free market to you? Look at places like Hong Kong, that is a mostly free market. And compare it to mainland China, which has a genetically identical population, which shares a lot of the history and culture. Or look at North and South Korea. Venezuela and Chile. The degree to which capitalism is deployed in a country is the degree to which this country prospers. And don't get me started on northern Europe. Yes, many of those countries have large welfare states, but those are facilitated by a large free market. These countries are quite capitalist under the surface. And they have a very high IQ population and (at least before the whole immigration debacle) a high level of social trust, all of which creates productivity that can carry the ineffectiveness of socialist exploitation.

So, if you think socialism and capitalism are both a tool to oppress us, which is your preferred system and what does it look like? Because the way I see it, every system is some degree of both (at max it's 100% one or the other).