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[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you name a pure capitalist state that's succeeded without socialist elements keeping it afloat?

Follow-up: Why hand money to the leeches that do nothing but own shit rather than the workers that fuel the economy?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I'm not starving and I can choose how to live my life.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not currently dying, so that's about as much as I can ask for.

You do see how cucked you are, right?

[–] Airgoof@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe solution is somewhere in the middle, not one of extremes?

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

We've already tried the middle

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can't point to an actual capitalist society that's succeeded, why would there be any meaning in pointing out a communist one that has?

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who paid for the roads, fire department, police, Military, postal service, bridges, dams... Shall I go on?

You think taxing people and using that money to fund public infrastructure and services is pure capitalism that's operating without socialist principles?