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I've worked hard for what I have too. That doesn't stop me from looking around, seeing that there are billions of people on this planet who work way harder than I do for way less than I have, and saying "this system should be changed."
idk what communist countries you've been to, but if you compare for example the average Cuban's quality of life to that of the average person on any other Caribbean island, capitalism doesn't come out looking too hot. Most post Soviet countries are still poorer today than they were in 1989, almost everyone who has been lifted out of poverty in the past generation is Chinese, and there are literally hundreds of capitalist countries that have been doing capitalism for a hundred years or more that have remained the poorest countries in the world regardless.
The objective reality is that communism is leaps and bounds better at organizing society than capitalism can ever be, full stop.
Cuba has a longer life expectancy, America is winning hard.