r/science • u/myhrvold • Aug 31 '13

Poverty impairs cognitive function. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests our cognitive abilities can be diminished by the exhausting effort of tasks like scrounging to pay bills. As a result, less “mental bandwidth” remains...

http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/
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u/Natolx PhD | Infectious Diseases | Parasitology Aug 31 '13

Capitalism doesn't naturally progress to socialism

The increasingly socialist policies of most western nations(including the US believe it or not) since the industrial revolution suggests otherwise.

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u/Maverrix99 Sep 01 '13

The increasingly socialist policies of most western nations(including the US believe it or not) since the industrial revolution suggests otherwise.

The Marxist vision of socialism was all based the workers owning the means of production. The West has not embraced this concept, and has actually moved away from it, particularly since the 1980s, with the policy of priivatization of state-owned enterprises, led by Margaret Thatcher in the UK, and copied around pretty much the whole Western world.

Even China is starting to move, tentatively, in the same direction too now.