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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Here's a clue: ALL societies run on GREED. Capitalism is an economic system that turns this TRUTH into an engine that benefits a wider group of people than other systems. It's not perfect but the alternatives suck.
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God! these people are either stupid or misinformed....
The Fords and the other capitalists did not give workers good wages, Trade Unions and workers working together for the benefit of all fought for living wages.
The working class and left wing parties fought tooth and nail for a health Service for all in the UK, the opposite to greed.
During the Cold War when the capitalist class shit its pants in fear of communism, there was free education, free dentistry, unemployment pay, in lots of the West etc etc, showing that Soviet Communism benefited the Western working class.
Communist countries did everything western capitalist countries did but without a class of the super rich.
Now after 20 years of casino neo liberal capitalism the greed is an embarrassment to all,
6000 people own more than $1,000,000,000 each, they own more than whole peoples, its often based on economic technological accidents, like who invents a piece of simple software first. or land stolen hundreds of years ago , or whole industries
With this wealth they buy the politics, the culture and the soul of whole nations.
With whole countries and communities dying from lack of jobs or water or peace it is time to end this system of greed.