Poll: Capitalism dying?

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Don't get my hopes up.

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Capitalism is much more efficient than a mixed market system. The only reason we can have a mixed market system is because pure capitalism created enough wealth for all of these safety nets. Capitalism literally has no flaws.

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Yeah, same exact reaction. Funniest thing is his "name me the flaws" response.

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Poverty isn't a flaw of capitalism. Capitalism wasn't supposed to eradicate the poor class. No1 has ever said it was. If they did, they were misinformed. Capitalism is perfect because it consistently achieves it's goals.

Yeah, the goal that for every millionaire, there's gonna be hundreds of people stricken with poverty. Pretty sweet goal. But hey, those poverty-stricken cretins will some day be rich thanks to trickle down economics. Just ask everyone in Detroit. They all got rich after that big auto boom.

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Poverty isn't a flaw of capitalism. Capitalism wasn't supposed to eradicate the poor class. No1 has ever said it was. If they did, they were misinformed. Capitalism is perfect because it consistently achieves it's goals.

Yeah, the goal that for every millionaire, there's gonna be hundreds of people stricken with poverty. Pretty sweet goal. But hey, those poverty-stricken cretins will some day be rich thanks to trickle down economics. Just ask everyone in Detroit. They all got rich after that big auto boom.

Because there are so many well off people in socialist or market intervening countries. Yeah you guys are so great. That's why Africa and South America are doing so well. Also, poverty is relative.

The point of socialism isn't to be "well-off", it's to be equal. And I would hardly call Africa or South America socialist. Africa's a victim of imperialism (capitalist imperialism, at that) and, just to pick one South American country, Brazil is extremely wealthy in terms of GDP, but continue to suffer from massive income inequality because of (surprise) capitalism. Read up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Brazil