>obvious fact that severe poverty has disappeared in the most industrialized countries. Nations like the US, UK, Switzerland, and Japan industrialized within what were predominantly laissez-faire free-market conditions. Even the so-called social democracies, like Sweden and Germany, developed in free-market conditions, and adopted extensive state welfare and regulatory programs only after achieving high levels of economic development and industrialization. World Bank data shows that there is inequality, but this inequality is between the free-market nations and the crony-capitalist and socialistic nations.
Honestly man, if you could get in a time machine and bring someone from 500 years ago back to this time period and show them how you live If you told them you're poor, they would laugh in your face.
Hudson Bennett
Yeah, can't wait to see how the world looks in 2100.
James Nelson
The free market just works.
Ryder Walker
>NOOOOOOOO! THIS IS BULLSHIT, WE NEED MORE WELFARE!
Don't forge that even the pajeets and chinks pulled huge proportions of their population out of poverty after somewhat liberalizing their economies.
Charles Brooks
>industrialized countries are wealthy
Woah
Dominic Parker
At the expense of much of yours. Say hi to your replacement, Rankeet.
>muh iPhone!
Good Goy, the
Ethan Cruz
Meant to say
Good goy, the proletarianization is complete
Jacob Brooks
>muh iphone actually yeah, but also >so much food everyone is obese or forcing themselves to diet and exercise >drinkable, hot water and electricity 24/7 for everyone >fridges, cars, tvs and shit >everyone has several pairs of clothes, even hobos have shoes >most diseases eradicated or easily treatable >everyone can read and write (more or less)
Eli Baker
totally untrue look at the crowd of bums living in a van in US they can't even cure themselves
Thomas Brown
Reducing poverty radically is not the same thing as exterminating poverty 100%
Juan Peterson
I didn't say anything about iphones... Honestly, commies like you are so fucking stupid and worthless, that under any other system, you would already be dead. I am unironically for the destruction of capitalism if it means you starve to death.
Dominic Thomas
they're unironically poor because of government intervention making it illegal to build homes
Luis Harris
IMO a country will develop a socialist system if there end up being too many "have nots" in a "le free market" system (many free markets aren't actually free because when government becomes too weak then the corporations just make the rules of the land and they use this to create monopolies.)
Rich people don't give poor people money out of the goodness of their heart or virtue signaling, they give them money so that their life won't suck so badly they have nothing to lose and start a revolution.
Austin Hill
Just wondering why you're posting a 5 year old article?
Jose Mitchell
No reason. 5 years is nothing. Human nature hasn't changed in 5 years.
Xavier Rodriguez
A country will develop a socialist system when socialists push the message down peoples throat through the educational system or some other way. Socialist revolutions are a top-down movement, not grassroots movement.
I personally have nothing against monopolies if they are created honestly. I understand this is a very unpopular opinion even in the right and I understand the reasons why someone would want to restrict monopolies.
Doesn't change the fact that governments create monopolies by restricting competition and by giving unfair, nonreplicable, advantages to others.
People don't realize that really drives standard of living is advances in technology. Wealth "equality" is a meme. The pathetic piece of shit of today is better off because off medical and technological advances. What drives those advances? Capitalism. Self interest. Humanity will wallow in stagnancy when people have no self serving reason to innovate.
Nolan Phillips
This. It's closer to the truth than 90% of the content of that propaganda website, but it's not telling the whole story. Access to markets is very important for poverty reduction, but it's not the only thing needed. Government redistribution of wealth is highly advantageous despite what they claim.
And although most industrialising nations were laisez-faire internally, their external policies were highly protectionist at least some of the time. I support free trade, but not because of its imaginary track record!
That has more to do with science and technology than how the economy's run.
Jacob Myers
A non-coercive monopoly is only defacto because the consumers choose, in unison, to buy product from it due to its superior service.
Yuri Bezmenov is telling half truths in his videos trying to blame communists. When in reality it was the fucking jews doing this shit and a few extra shit he threw in there to get people to buy his book.
Eli Thomas
Where do you think all the technology comes from, idiot. Very little of "technology" is theoretical papers written by autists in their basement. Most of it is know-how, inventions and other incremental improvements / knowledge capital.
Aaron Thompson
Wait... Don't tell me Americans still believe Europeans are somewhat poor? You cant unironically believe that?
Joshua Turner
GO back to redd*t, ya comie fuck
Luke Taylor
Imagine being such a moron you advocate for some system assuming people are something other than what they've historically proven themselves to be. A pragmatist acknowledges reality and advocates for a system that takes that reality and turns it into value. It just so happens that in this instance such a system is also moral, unlike the alternatives.
William Garcia
im natsoc you loser greedy capitalist piece of shit
Government redistribution of wealth creates lazy, useless people who cannot take care of themselves or their loved ones. These people turn to drugs in their boredom leading to increases in crime. It reduces the human capital we have. In addition to it destroying incentives to create useful stuff and things.
No, you're a LARP virgin. Get out and go back you commie retard. Everyone knows that Judaism and Communism go hand in hand. You're just trying to obfuscate and say it, "wasn't real" communism by jew blaming and trying to discredit arguably one of the finest defectors.
No seriously, kill yourself.
Dylan Edwards
Only someone who has never worked with technology would think that e.g. the iPhone is a huge invention, and not a simple collection of many components that were invented way before 2007.
Also: most of those components were invented by the military or public-funded research.
Aiden Green
To freedom loving people natsocs and commies are almost the same thing. Both of them hate freedom, even though they are different in some other ways.
Nolan Cox
>obvious fact that severe poverty has disappeared in the most industrialized countries. Key word "severe"
78% of fulltime workers still live paycheck to paycheck >inb4 nationalist sheep says it's the individuals fault/irresponsibility with money False. It is due to expenses. For instance, 50% of renters spend over 30% of their income on rent. Of those, half spend over 50% of their income on rent. 30% of jobs pay hardship wages (you literally can't move out). 32% of all jobs pay livable wages (basically guaranteed to not be able to save much of anything. You will basically be on the red the whole time). Etc.
So ya, "severe"poverty isn't a thing here but poverty still is. >inb4 a retard says "f-fake news!" I swear there WILL be a delusional fucking dumbass that can't comprehend numbers. That special person that can't understand basic statistics.
Spoken like a commie moron, what are you 12 kiddo? How much Das Kapital dick you sucking?
Brody Roberts
If you are not willing to ally yourself with anyone, capitalists and commies will ally together and beat you. 2 against 1.
Liam Nguyen
>What drives those advances? Capitalism. Self interest. Hold it there, champion. The profit motive is important, but a purely for-profit thought in certain sectors such as healthcare or education will lead to... Literally, the United States, where healthcare costs are absurd and every young person has college debt.
"Self interest" does not mean "I can fuck over people any way I want".
Aaron Garcia
Healthcare costs are rising rapidly everywhere due to at least aging population and bad lifestyle choices (obesity etc.)
Camden Anderson
wrong, don't need to ally with any pieces of shit that will stab you in the back.
That depends how it's done and on the economic situation, but it's usually false as incentive to work is rarely the limiting factor. Wealth redistribution makes it much EASIER for people to take care of themselves and their loved ones, as their lives aren't so dominated by short term economic constraints.
You are wrongly assuming the recipients of wealth redistribution to all be NEETs, but that's only a small proportion of them - and the proportion of NEETs who are that way because of an economic incentive is much smaller.
Brody Adams
odd they would have their banners in english
Jordan Martin
People can easily save an emergency fund which can 100% replace any wealth redistribution scheme. This in addition to help from friends and family. + Nonprofit organizations and insurance.
My solution for tough times doesn't distort the economy in any way and has 100% of the benefits.
John Thompson
>the world had 0 development before capitalism and communism, as well as other noncapitalist societies, had 0 cientific advancement
oh boy
Brandon Young
do you see the flags?
Dylan Hughes
Healthcare costs rising is due to government regulation.
Asher Adams
In my own life I have seen that only 5% of welfare recipients actually need it and 95% of them are actually just unwilling to work. That one exception is a disabled person (and his family is willing to take care of him so even he could survive without). The claim that 90% of unemployed are some noble hard working people is bullshit.
It's not, neither have they been free market nor have they eradicated severe poverty
Parker Peterson
Russian peasants were significantly poorer before the creation of the Soviet Union. That's not to say they stopped being poor after communism, but things significantly improved.
John Jenkins
What the fuck is welfare? Name a specific program if you're going to use anecdotal garbage.
Julian Allen
I am talking unemployment benefits and housing benefits.
Parker Hill
Anecdotal evidence is better evidence in this case because of course welfare recipients are going to cry they don't have enough (even though they are obese) and there are no jobs anywhere if you ask them in some sort of study in order to keep public support up for such programs.
Brody Myers
From that I deduce you I've in the USA. In most advanced countries, there are welfare payments other than unemployment benefits and disability pensions.
As for unemployment, willingness to work doesn't count for much when nobody is willing to employ you.
Not everyone earns enough to save up for emergencies, and forcing people to do so absolutely distorts the economy (though the idea that an undistorted economy is somehow better is ludicrous garbage anyway).
Asher Gomez
Everyone earns enough to save up for an emergency fund. Unless they are working 8 hours a week, in which case they can get a second job.
Most unemployed people I know don't even look for work. The ones that look are super picky and are not willing to take "lesser" work.
You clearly live in some fantasy world which is not the same reality in which I live. Take your head out of your ass. Or maybe you are a NEET spouting bullshit to keep your free gibs alive.
