Comments by "Newbie Prepper" (@newbieprepper8451) on "Bernie u0026 AOC Rally With Amazon Workers Before Big Vote" video.
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@maxmeggeneder8935 its not that you cant influence my opinion on the matter because of lack of arguments, its because you cant influence my opinion on the matter because of my real world experience.
a brief history on me. i was born and grew up under a socialist system, in eastern Europe, behind the iron curtain, so i know enough about communism / socialism to understand it through actual lived experience.
capitalism is the best system out there right now and thats a fact, and that fact is constantly reinforced by the amount of people who flee socialist states for capitalism ones and a lack of people fleeing capitalist states for socialist ones.
socialism / communism breeds a culture of stagnation, because the people in it are unwilling to work harder to create a better product without any reward to it. here is an example. would you work 20 hours a day every day to create a company when you wont receive any of the benefits of that company other than a regular job? most people wont put in the extra effort to do anything out of the ordinary when there is no perceivable benefit to them.
capitalism on the other hand rewards ingenuity and hard work with actual tangible rewards. most people are not as concerned with other peoples lives, thats most people, there are a few out there that put others before themselves, but for the majority of the human race, they are concerned with themselves, then their immediate family, then their circle of extended family, then their extended circle of friends and then after that the larger circle of people they dont know.
as for a tiny minority who profit off capitalism, capitalism has raised more people out of poverty across the world than any other system to date.
the problems you name with capitalism are inherent in all systems, you think socialism doesnt have those problems? you think the media is free and independent in a socialist or communist system? you think they dont push propaganda? how did Putin amass tens of billions of dollars in wealth? he didnt do it under capitalism. where do you think all those Russian oligarchs come from? you think they popped up out of the ground like daisies?
every system has its flaws, and the flaws you claim to be inherent to capitalism and inherent to every system. the only difference is that in a capitalist system, you have a chance to get ahead, plenty of people do it every day. in a socialist system you dont have that chance unless you have connections. you are given your lot in life and that is that. an example is the creator of Tetris, the most widely sold and popular game across the world. guess who got all the profits from it, it wasnt him.
in capitalism, if you create something, it is yours and you have the ability of profiting from it and being rewarded. in socialism, you dont profit from anything and whatever you create doesnt belong to you, it belongs to the state. you cant argue thats a better system than capitalism.
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@terrystevens3998 apparently you dont know what capitalism and socialism is, and you dare call anyone childish. perhaps you can read the definition of capitalism, the US is a capitalism economic state. and i lived under a socialist state when i was younger, but perhaps you are smarter than over 100 million Russians and the Russian government that called themselves socialists.
A) America IS a fully capitalist system, the government does not hold any stock in any company or own any company, every single company in the US is owned by private individuals with the ability to freely exchange goods and services. you might be thinking its not a completely capitalist system because there are some social programs, common mistake uneducated people like you make.
B) the system i lived under WAS a socialist system, as in the workers did not directly have control of the means of production, the state had control, and the state was the workers. what you try to describe is a fairytale fantasy on paper that doesnt exist. but perhaps you want to tell my how you know better than the 100+ MILLION socialist who lived under that system how they were NOT socialist and they were NOT living under a socialist system because you read a book one time and you think you know more than everyone else.
and yea, i assign good things to capitalism and bad things to socialism becaue i lived under both types of systems so i speak from experience, and that is mostly how economic systems work.
now i would love for you to point to a country that has socialism, and i mean socialism, not a couple of social safety nets powered by a capitalist economy, but socialist countries that have better upward mobility than capitalist countries, please point those countries out.
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