Capitalism is only around 400 years old. There was plenty of poverty before then.
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Is this some ai filter? That's bullshit
Pretty sure it’s an old school photoshop filter, like the wrap one or something.
Thanks, ChatGPT.
Also poverty existed long before capitalism
It has indeed, but you could, for instance, have said that poverty was a result of feudalism, when that was the primary economic system. The sentiment here isn't that capitalism alone causes poverty so much as that it's a result of the design of our social order rather than the individuals experiencing it, with the implication that solving it requires adopting some system that doesn't inheritly promote it.
Correct. But blaming absolutely everything on some vague bogeyman called "capitalism" isn't helpful.
Accepting the ambiguity you point out, saying that capitalism inherently promotes poverty is a stretch. It’s demonstrably the spread of liberal free market capitalism over the last 50 years has been the key to dragging more people out of poverty than ever before. It sure ain’t perfect, and needs to be moderated with appropriate democratic oversight and regulation, but it’s worked better than anything else we’ve tried
but it’s worked better than anything else we’ve tried
I am not a fan of the CCP at all, but the amount of people they've lifted out of abject poverty in the past 30+ years has been staggering.
So no.
With capitalism and the adoption of a free market economy. Less on the democratic oversight
Poverty is a choice. One made by the leeches to soak up the money from circulation, preventing anyone else from having any.
a societal choice indeed
if people didn't wanna be poor, why didn't they pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Simples, no?
Who believes poverty is a choice?!
The same people who think being GSM is a choice?
May I inquire as to what "GSM" means? My internet search only tells me something about communications systems which I doubt are the correct answer
Gender and sexual minorities. Like LGBT+
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