Topic: If You Hate Poverty, You Should Love Capitalism - page 9. (Read 1480 times)

There are some decent arguments in favour of capitalism, so it's a shame that most people who try to argue in favour of it don't use them.  The following are some of the dumb arguments presented in this thread:
Yeah, how dare they be functioning members of society!  To draw some parallels:  "how dare you complain about feudalism when you're wearing rags made under feudalism!"  "how dare you complain about the Soviet Union when you're driving cars made in the Soviet Union!"
Correlation =! causation.
Capitalist governments around the world are not censoring positive information about capitalism.  I'm sorry to inform you about that.  

As for "the media" the majority of it is in favour of at least partial/limited capitalism.  As for schools, it's understandable since they're in the public sector, but basic information is still taught about the economic systems, particularly in history.  To discuss the economic systems too much in schools could be regarded as manipulating children to whatever the biases of the school is or whatever the biases of the teachers are.

If you're going to argue that a capitalist government cannot exist, understand that a mixed system can exist which favours capitalism for the majority of industry.  Definition:

capitalism
ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/Submit
noun
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

I dont hate capitalism but it didnt really reduced the levels of poverty over the past 5 or so decades. In fact, poverty now is becoming widespread, there are more homeless men and women now compared to the ones in the past. Just look at the USA, there are many homeless people there so therefore I conclude that capitalism doesnt really elevate living standards of all, but elevates the way of making money of those who have money.

Do you really believe there's no poverty in capitalism? It's there' just like in any other system. Capitalism allows people with money to easily make more money, while communism allows people with power to make more money. The social structure in both capitalism, communism/socialism and dictatorship is different, but all classes still exist!
I advise you to go to the legendary land of capitalism, the US of A and check out how many homeless people there are sleeping on the streets.

Everyone should read:

"The Rational Optimist"

and

"Sapiens"

Amazing books on human history and will put everything in perspective. There aren't really any arguments for systems other than capitalism, but what we will start to see is a sort of neo-capitalism driven by the blockchain revolution. The role of government will be even less, continuing to move away from socialism while eliminating more and more of the 'bad' parts of capitalism.

I have nothing against Capitalism, in fact I own a business so I consider myself a capitalist. I also have some business outside and I have workers, and I felt that somewhat I help them to put food in front of the table for the families and I haven't found one of them disrespectful as other capitalist have been experiencing. They look at capitalist as vultures, opportunistic bloodless human person that will take any opportunity to profit. But so far, I haven't felt this to my workers so I'm happy to be called capitalist. Of course, you are the first person that they will go to incase of emergencies, so you need to a lot of patience dealing with them. Also you need to firm if not they will abused you. So for me, capitalism has also a good side of it.

Everything has its own pros and cons. Capitalism, no doubt has worked positively for the people who are unable to feed their families. Capitalism has raised the standard of living, thus giving more opportunities to earn more. I personally consider it the best economical system.

I wish schools & the media wouldn't promote safe spaces.

Its difficult to know pros & cons of capitalism or socialism when discussion and debate on those topics is stifled.

It is difficult for people to be educated, informed or support the correct stance when information on these topics is censored.

If we're to create a better world, these things are important.

For me capitalism  especially if that private entity is really the one funding everything for the economy of a country. From what i see, if a government funds a road, the budget becomes lesser the more people there are in that project. Example, government gave funds to a mayor for a road at 20 million. He told the engineer the allocated budget is 18 million, then the engineer only used 15 million during the span of that project. Now i know there are still a lot of people in a project but its just my example.. Where as a private entity can come from just one budget there fore he can pay everyone at there own expense without any budget being corrupted. I think some people should really realize how capitalism actually helps economically.

Capitalism has its own advantage and disadvantage of course, for me poverty really destroy a human nature when it comes to one's environment and any different kind of living and the way people in poverty look the world in their life.

But people in poverty must tend to realize that they must do something to get out there and not blaming who is in control with the system. The only thing we can do to the less fortunate people is to help them to realize this and not to spoon feed them.

You should promote this video to anti-capitalist "social justice" activists who hate capitalism ,but use computers and smartphones.
I don`t hate capitalism,i hate the bankster cartel of all central bankers,that are trying to ruin the markets and steal peoples savings with the negative interests policy.
The demographic growth of the third world population keeps the poverty levels high.This is the main issue to focus on.

This is a decent youtube clip emphasizing positive aspects of capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n6ivGgb9RY

More fuel for the discussion on capitalism fire.

The main point alleged here is: "world poverty has fallen by 80% since 1970".

They claim capitalism is the main driving force behind reduced levels of poverty over the past 5 or so decades, which in turn implies capitalism creates elevated living standards.