Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "Why South Korea's Seniors Are So Poor" video.

European had that mentality as well, so I believe it's not about confucianism but the way individualism has grown during the post-WW2 consumerism era.
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@vanhuvanhuvese2738 universal income is purely a social-democratic measure as it's just a regulation of capitalism (a Keynesian one), not a way to replace the system by some form of socialism. I share your analysis of USA but I don't understand why you're talking about it.
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@vanhuvanhuvese2738 I think pjh was talking about any social measures proposed by a social-democracy ideology, which is still capitalist not communist at all.
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Your reality needs an update. Neo-liberalism politics is in fact the issue, as it enhances the gap between riches and poors and push a large amount of the population to precarity. That's why most of the old industrialized countries applied social-democratic reforms. It's not a coincidence that socialism emerged during the 19th century in Europe where the violence of capitalism was peaking due to classical liberal politics.
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@vanhuvanhuvese2738 The thing is, I didn't ask that. I just argued about what you consider as far left.
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@vanhuvanhuvese2738 Well, it's pretty clear when you know the history of political ideologies and how their ideas were gradually adopted.
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