Capitaism is not the problem.

[stompix]

You may consider it anyhow you want, but we're one race, one people,  black love and if you don't want it, fine as for me, I will watch and see Africa Unite as one. And we do not need no western practices that steals our labour and resources in Africa anymore.

Yeah yeah black love....
Stop with the crap , everyone knows you were selling your own people as slaves for booze and guns and have done so for millennia for Arabs and for centuries to Europeans. Rwanda genocide? Was that black love when millions of black people killed millions of black people?

You keep on comparing Africa with Europe do you think they're any better?

One hundred billion times!
That's why Africans flee to Europe, not the other way around!

Africa had the African type of socialism, a communal system which was definitely different and peculiar to African heritage and which corruption was strictly checkmated from top to bottom until the colonialists arrived and distorted the system imposing an alien system to the African environment which hasn't in any reasonable way produced real development because it leaves the elite fantastically corrupt and stronger than public institutions.

Africa had tribalism, nothing else, that's why the society is so underdeveloped even now, that's why there are civil wars everywhere, and this is why you have coupsevey single damn year, stop lying to yourself and face the reality, it's not colonialism, it's not western influence that is to lame, it's you !
The whole blame the white people was trendy a decade ago, it's no longer so change the narrative to gain a few extra tears!

[barbara44]

Capitalism has never been the problem; the problem is playing the victim and thinking the world owes you something. There is inequality, yes, but capitalism allows people, in a way, to take control of their own destiny, unlike communism, where the state controls everything. Of course, some people have more "advantages," but that doesn't mean those who don't can't succeed and prosper.

That's not how it works, nobody, not even the most staunch leftists is saying that there is no corruption, or we are "owed" something. We are just saying that, instead of subsidies paid to Elon Musk for building a car and getting rich and the space ships, maybe give that back to people? Look at California for example, that's a "left" state, and yet they spent billions and did nothing for homeless people, there are in fact more now than before, after spending tens of billions.

It's not about left or right, it is not about capitalism or communism, it's all about efficiency and corruption. A place that is efficient and not corrupt, can be run by capitalism or communism and be fine, if it's corrupt then it can be run by capitalism or communism and it would be bad.

[r_victory]

It's not about left or right, it is not about capitalism or communism, it's all about efficiency and corruption. A place that is efficient and not corrupt, can be run by capitalism or communism and be fine, if it's corrupt then it can be run by capitalism or communism and it would be bad.

I liked your answer. When I mentioned communism, I was thinking about the theory that, in a way, seeks equality, and if, in practice, it were as in theory, who knows, maybe we would have a more just world? The problem is that, when the dictatorship of the proletariat tastes power, it doesn't want to let go. It ends up becoming what it criticizes.

In capitalism, there is no theory that isn't put into practice; it is what it is, and that's it.

Tell me a nation where there is efficiency and an absence of corruption. I'll move there immediately...

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Most of the time, I see people blaming capitalism for the world's situation. I see it on the forum, I see it on social media and even on the news. But is capitalism really the cause of the world being shit today? If the whole world had other economic systems, would it be better than it is today? How about countries that use other economic systems? Are they perfect?

We blame the system, but we ourselves sometimes don't understand how to adjust in life so we end up blaming a particular system. There is no perfection in this world, be it the application of capitalism, presidential, parliamentary or other systems because each has a certain level of weakness. I like a system of freedom where people can gain wealth or even poor people can achieve wealth from the process they go through.

If there really is perfection, maybe we can show just one example so we can discuss whether the country could be better. Some countries have a view on the system and they use a particular system based on past decisions by considering the steps.

[Alpha Marine]

I liked your answer. When I mentioned communism, I was thinking about the theory that, in a way, seeks equality, and if, in practice, it were as in theory, who knows, maybe we would have a more just world? The problem is that, when the dictatorship of the proletariat tastes power, it doesn't want to let go. It ends up becoming what it criticizes.

This is why I would always continue to argue that communism is a concept that can only be possible in theory. It can never be practical. Even in a small community, a time will come when the system will break down because one cannot work more while others work less and benefit the same. And in a system like that, there will always be people who will take advantage of it and purposely work less, after all, they will all get the same thing. There is no incentive to work hard. Communism and Utopian society are the same thing in the sense that they only work in theory, but can never be practical, not in a million years.

Tell me a nation where there is efficiency and an absence of corruption. I'll move there immediately...

Exactly. That is why there is a system in place to check the behaviors of everybody. So if that system is broken, nothing will work.

[Betwrong]

Most of the time, I see people blaming capitalism for the world's situation. I see it on the forum, I see it on social media and even on the news. But is capitalism really the cause of the world being shit today? If the whole world had other economic systems, would it be better than it is today? How about countries that use other economic systems? Are they perfect?
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No, they are not perfect, and they are definitely worse than capitalist economic system, which is not perfect either, but it’s obvious that most people in capitalist countries are better off economically. People blame capitalism because they’ve been told on the telly that global capitalism is the source of all their problems. It’s their local ruling elite that robs them constantly and then shifts the blame onto global capitalism.