Topic: Socialism vs Capitalism Meme Review - page 2. (Read 310 times)

I tend to take a hybrid system and not be strict behind every specific one and try to make it the best compared to the rest of the systems, and unfortunately, many of these comparisons are specific to ideology.
Now some are trying to portray what happened with COVID-19 as a victory for socialism, especially with the increasing number of casualties in the United States, but each country has a specific model.

I will listen to the video later and give an evaluation.

^ My idea is, socialism and capitalism may be different but they both promise equality but what is important right now is our idea of equality. Inequality, socialism where everything is ruled and owned by the government, all citizens are workers that are governed by their law while Capitalism somehow can not be equal to their citizens for people who have the option of building their own business and have the rule over his worker. Nevertheless, Capitalism promotes less equality but the sense of giving everyone the chance to grow is already equality underneath. The commodities are being owned and rule by one then the cost of living is in full control of one person while in capitalism where everyone can compete with other capitalists then there will be a big chance to pull down the cost of living in capitalism. Hence, for these two I prefer Capitalism but I didn't go against Socialism for both of them have only one goal and that is to provide equality to everyone.

That was a funny video,however it would be nice to distinguish socialism from social democracy.Scandinavian countries and western European countries after WWII can be considered pretty leftist and social democratic,but they have created high living standard and high quality of life.On the other side are all the
"socialist" countries in the third world,which are mostly totalitarian regimes that failed miserably.
Social democracy was kinda successful,while the totalitarian "socialism",that was oriented towards creating a communist utopia was a big pile of s*it.
Social democracy is the  idea of combining socialism and capitalism.That's why it worked.

Until now there has been no ideal economic system implemented that can combine the positive values of the two systems above. Because in reality, the ideology of capitalism and socialism takes many victims. Modernization, growth, efficiency, breed of capital, technology, etc., bring many victims because of social inequality, inequality, poverty, both because of monopolies, oligopolies, etc., to the effect of very tight political stability. On the contrary, in the ideology of socialism, the idea of class struggle revolution also brings many human victims. Promises of a bright future that will happen, paid with suffering, terror, and war.

Both socialist and capitalist aims to achieve material wealth both by means of a free market mechanism and by a centralized system of planning through the government. In the end, both systems will exploit existing natural resources to prove which of the two systems is most effective in generating profits. Both of them failed to create an even distribution of welfare.

Along with the growing Muslim population throughout the world. Islamic economists claim that the Islamic economic system is an economic system that can bring prosperity to all humans. The new ideology of capitalism and socialism applies at the level of the most basic purpose of human life, and not the true purpose of life. Fundamental goals keep changing so that humans will not be happy. In Islamic economics material is not a goal, but rather a tool/way to achieve the goal so that the benchmark for the success of the Islamic economic system is not more and more material or benefits gained. Rather it is the extent to which the material possessed has benefits to the running of the economy.

I pick this aspect of your post. Capitalism indeed encourages individual growth which helps the society. It allows an individual the opportunity to even help to support the country and people at large since it allows for business to striving far from what it can be with socialism.

To be fair, memes actually deliver quite a clearer and more concise message than textbooks nowadays. Maybe because anyone can relate to it and understand it without having to look at deeper context just because of the meme formats?

Anyway, Capitalism v Socialism is a long standing debate between which is better. Of course, proponents of either theory will brought forth examples of the system working in an ideal setup wherein everything goes according to what they think should happen. In real-world cases, these are just ideas belonging to books in libraries prized by scholars as they contain ideas that shaped the world to what it is now. There are always flaws to either system which the other one fulfills, so I guess there will never be a better system between the two--at least in ideologies and not real-world application as both proved to destroy society depending on who runs the gears.

It's a great video with lots of memes that gets you really thinking of which really is better in today's society. If I were to pick one, I'd say it's capitalism with some elements of equality--but that wouldn't happen with lots of 'capitalist pigs' and 'giant companies' nowadays.

Socialism works in China but not in other countries, capitalism works in USA but not necessarily in the ex Soviet countries, i have the strong belief that all what matters is the person to controls the democratic tools, if we talk about people open minded then everything will be fine, if not, then we just die in front of the hospital because we don't have medical insurance. Capitalism or socialism it goes down to the leaders.

Regarding socialism, Nostradamus said in his quatrains that Russia will retreat from historical development by 74 years. That, in my opinion, says it all. Socialism has a lot of good, but in general it is the path of an unfulfilled utopianism. I lived under socialism and no longer want to return to it. In my opinion, society does not need political add-ons at all. Humanity should simply develop and make its life more convenient. We need to unite and develop other planets, and not constantly look for an excuse for war with each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFZgZ5IjTU


Above is a link to one of the best socialism vs capitalism analysis & breakdown pieces I've had the pleasure of seeing.  ^

People have a tendency to approach topics like free markets from rigid textbook definitions. Which do not always parallel the way abstracts apply to real world application. The simplicity and intuitiveness of memes may offer a better framework for analysis. For the same reasons people far and wide across the internet prefer posting memes over dictionary terminology to make points.

With the recent economic crisis we are witnessing a resurgence in debate over which systems and formats are best suited to handle the challenging conditions we find ourselves in. And so here is my contribution to the cause.