• Snowies@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    My girlfriend thinks capitalism is fine and doesn’t care about billionaires existing.

    She’s never had a minimum wage job or worked in the service industry 🙄

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      2 hours ago

      Just curious, what is the alternative you propose? We have seen communism, that doesn’t work either.

      In my country we also have capatalism but we still have workers rights and all of that. It is just in America that employers managed to get everything their way. Other countries have free markets without abusing their workers.

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        1 hour ago

        Socialized Democracy.

        Basically democracy with robust safety nets, strong regulation on business, strong labor unions, and socialized healthcare and higher education OPTIONS.

        Capitalism is good for competition and innovation so we can’t really ditch it completely, but we live in society, not the jungle, so we should have safety nets and socialized options for poor people to gain independence and social mobility.