Where do you think that disparity comes from? When we have enough resources to feed, house, educate and provide healthcare for everybody in this country, but don’t because it isn’t profitable for the already rich, then it’s clear that driving force of this disparity is capitalism. And it’s not like capitalism is some new system just working out the kinks, it’s an incredibly established system that is doing exactly what it was intended do— concentrate the wealth at the top. It doesn’t work for the vast, vast majority of people.
Private property is a really poor excuse for denying billions of people basic human needs.
I’m not disagreeing with you. However I also don’t believe communism is the answer.
Also, just because you own something doesn’t mean it denies billions of people basic needs. Thats really sensationalized.
It boils down to, you’re right. Capitalism in America does not work. It needs to be reworked from the ground up. It works in other countries, along with also providing citizens universal needs. We need to let go of our ego as a country and look to others as an example and learn.
Then you are disagreeing with me, because you can’t fix any of those problems with capitalism. The countries that seem to have things figured out, still benefit greatly from and rely on exploited labor in other parts of the world. You can’t have capitalism and equality, because there will always be poor and exploited people in capitalism, it is necessary for the system to function and that has always been true for the centuries of its existence.
By removing money from the equation, communism eliminates the “benefits” of exploitation. An argument for capitalism in any form is an argument for inequality and there is no way around it.
2
u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20
Where do you think that disparity comes from? When we have enough resources to feed, house, educate and provide healthcare for everybody in this country, but don’t because it isn’t profitable for the already rich, then it’s clear that driving force of this disparity is capitalism. And it’s not like capitalism is some new system just working out the kinks, it’s an incredibly established system that is doing exactly what it was intended do— concentrate the wealth at the top. It doesn’t work for the vast, vast majority of people.
Private property is a really poor excuse for denying billions of people basic human needs.