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Pyramid of Capitalist System

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71 points mpiedrav | 4 comments | 06 Feb 20 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.797s | source
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k33n ◴[06 Feb 20 15:02 UTC] No.22256435[source]▶
Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty worldwide than any other system. Thank goodness for capitalism.
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commandlinefan ◴[06 Feb 20 15:04 UTC] No.22256449[source]▶
The people at the bottom of the capitalist pyramid are still better off than the people at the second-tier of the communist pyramid.
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mordae ◴[06 Feb 20 15:08 UTC] No.22256477[source]▶
For how long?
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LegitShady ◴[06 Feb 20 15:09 UTC] No.22256492[source]▶
Longer than the viable lifetime of a communist country.
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jefurii ◴[06 Feb 20 15:21 UTC] No.22256605[source]▶
It'd be nice to see an example of a socialist county that hadn't been constantly attacked and sabotaged by capitalist countries and allowed to go its own way. Then at least we'd be able to do a fairer comparison.
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PaulRobinson ◴[06 Feb 20 15:31 UTC] No.22256713[source]▶
France, Denmark, Finland and Sweden all qualify for most American definitions of the term "Socialist".
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1. Turing_Machine ◴[06 Feb 20 15:38 UTC] No.22256770[source]▶
No, they do not. All of those countries have market economies.
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2. busterarm ◴[06 Feb 20 15:46 UTC] No.22256858[source]▶
Don't bother, the rose emoji socialists in this country don't know the difference between socialism and social democracy.
3. mercer ◴[06 Feb 20 18:28 UTC] No.22258710[source]▶
Even Lenin, of all people, argued in favor of a (regulated) market economy.

It's a weird of inverse no-true-scotsman argument. I haven't met many socialists who argue in favor of a fully centralized economy. The big discussion, I suppose, is how much should be regulated, and which parts of our society should be 'markets'.

4. solarkraft ◴[06 Feb 20 19:26 UTC] No.22259360[source]▶
Not the real definition, but the definition in most americans' heads. Many probably also conflate those with communism.