Ask anyone who’s lived under communism and they’ll tell you otherwise. I live in a formerly communist country and have thousands of people around me who can directly compare. The only people who had it better under communism are the bottom 5-10% or people who didn’t want to work. If communism makes things cheaper, it’s because almost everyone has so much less money. Anyone who thinks otherwise has no real experience in the matter.
That’s not to say that capitalism can’t go off the rails. Without proper oversight, it will descend into monopolies and fascism, as we are seeing today. But in a well functioning system that has socialist and pro worker legislation as we see many places in Europe, the best of both capitalism and socialism can be brought out. I don’t know why everyone has to always try to go to one extreme or the other when the best system is always somewhere in the middle.
Communism as it has been tried was indeed flawed af. We’re going to need something else if we want to survive and be much more extreme than that. Your old communism was still a money economy, with the inherent problems thereof, functioned badly with greedy and fearful people at the top.
It’s always funny to me that when you tell them capitalism sucks you are a fan of 20th century East bloc regimes. No I’m not a tankie. Tankies are extremely stupid.
Ask anyone who’s lived under communism and they’ll tell you otherwise. I live in a formerly communist country and have thousands of people around me who can directly compare. The only people who had it better under communism are the bottom 5-10% or people who didn’t want to work. If communism makes things cheaper, it’s because almost everyone has so much less money. Anyone who thinks otherwise has no real experience in the matter.
That’s not to say that capitalism can’t go off the rails. Without proper oversight, it will descend into monopolies and fascism, as we are seeing today. But in a well functioning system that has socialist and pro worker legislation as we see many places in Europe, the best of both capitalism and socialism can be brought out. I don’t know why everyone has to always try to go to one extreme or the other when the best system is always somewhere in the middle.
Communism as it has been tried was indeed flawed af. We’re going to need something else if we want to survive and be much more extreme than that. Your old communism was still a money economy, with the inherent problems thereof, functioned badly with greedy and fearful people at the top.
It’s always funny to me that when you tell them capitalism sucks you are a fan of 20th century East bloc regimes. No I’m not a tankie. Tankies are extremely stupid.