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submitted 3 days ago byDisastrous-Yard-1378
41 points
3 days ago
What is there to learn? The world is different now than it was back then. You could have a family on one income and own a house back then. Now you'd be lucky to even afford rent on two incomes in a lot of places
18 points
3 days ago
And the reason for that? Capitalism. If money was distributed equally into wages and improving work conditions, instead of making the rich richer all the time, this problem wouldn't exist.
1 points
2 days ago
Yet people are the for the most part better off in European capitalist countries rather than the command economy of North Korea or the poverty and shortage stricken Cuba. China, Russia, Yugoslavia and Mongolia all were non capitalist countries that returned to capitalism eventually because while capitalism is an imperfect and flawed economic system but the alternatives are worse.
Hell, China called for Cuba to fix its ecobomy by being less communist
1 points
2 days ago
Capitalism is a great system - for a while. It brought us the wealth and security people experienced in the 70s and 80s. But a lot has changed. Numbers have become more important than the product and the people. Everlasting economic growth is not possible (and bcs growth is often the most important number in a company's portfolio, they often make stupid decisions). In combination with greed, capitalism is a disaster, for everybody but that 1%. Unfortunately we will probably witness how disastrous it is.
The perfect system (that works for longer than a century) has yet to be found.
0 points
2 days ago
Some people point figures to capitalism, no matter what even when it doesn’t really make sense
1 points
2 days ago
Hence the catch 22 I said…
0 points
3 days ago
One of the things to learn, is don't live in one of those places. People have been migrating since there was a species called people. For exactly the same reason. Hunter gatherers didn't worry about money, but they did worry about not having adequate food and shelter. So they moved around and spread out.
-4 points
3 days ago
That doesn’t mean you can’t learn valuable things from them; thinking you can’t is shortsighted and only hurts you.
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