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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
Show those graphs to all the starving people and tell them not to worry.
A few microsoft excel graphs saying that people are becoming less poor doesn't mean that that's thanks to capitalism, or that the state of things is acceptable.
And sometimes a system is rotten enough that it does need to be done away with entirely. Whether that's true for capitalism I don't claim to know.
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The point is that capitalism is just a framework. The only way to shift it into something better for even more people than the way it is now is to change the way that people approach things like scarcity, which would require a robot slave caste for all forms of low-level labor, affordable lab-based food production and a host of other things that are probably a decade away or so from being easily accessible or usable by regular people. If you want those things faster, tell all of our political representatives to throw down the cash and get that stuff out into the marketplace faster.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
The Koch-funded Cato Institute says capitalism good? Well I guess that settles it.
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Guess so Sherlock.
https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Reas.../dp/1780749503