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jamenta's avatar

You mean, for example, the US privatized health care system we have now, that is the #1 reason why Americans go bankrupt in the country? Whereas, every other advanced country in the world has a form of universal health care for their citizens, unlike the US - where the obscenely wealthy want to privatize everything in sight for corporate profits? And extort as much money from ordinary Americans as they can with pharmaceutical price gouging?

Yeah, Capitalism is just great ... for the 1% obscenely rich, who can pay to see a doctor in the US and not go bankrupt.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Yes, capitalism has killed more people with its lack of caring for them being housed, fed, and taken care of when they were sick. Capitalism has enslaved human beings because of the color of their skin, stolen the land of indigenous people everywhere and enslaved or killed them as well. Capitalism is okay with children working (such as the 10 year-olds working in a McDonald's in Iowa that they found out about recently) and about the elderly working until they're in their 90s because they can't afford to "retire" (whatever that means). I'll bet you that communism or any other "ism" hasn't killed nearly as many human beings as the great Capitalists and their corrupt system of making profits before the welfare of the people and the planet.

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