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Pyramid of Capitalist System

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71 points mpiedrav | 3 comments | 06 Feb 20 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.6s | 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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growlist ◴[06 Feb 20 15:33 UTC] No.22256730[source]▶
'Damn those dastardly Capitalists, underhandedly delivering superior living standards!'
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1. jefurii ◴[06 Feb 20 15:40 UTC] No.22256792[source]▶
You mean like what the U.S. did to Central American countries during the 80s? OR Vietnam, where we overthrew a democratically elected socialist government and installed a puppet, then dropped napalm on them when the didn't like that?
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2. growlist ◴[06 Feb 20 17:58 UTC] No.22258381[source]▶
Where this falls down is that there were other capitalist countries that didn't do the bad things you describe. I challenge you to name a single experiment in communism that didn't lead to worse outcomes.
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3. viklove ◴[06 Feb 20 23:09 UTC] No.22261442[source]▶
Communism isn't the only alternative to capitalism, you know that right?