• Waker@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    To be fair, on the meme they aren’t saying communism is the solution (although there any many memes that do).

    I think it’s easy to criticise capitalism because people live with it on a daily basis. If these people lived under communism they would criticise it somehow.

    This kinda reminds me of something I heard someone say. It’s something like “Democracy is shit. But it’s the best shit we have”.

    Is capitalism right? Nope. But I don’t feel like communism would be a solution either. But I’m all up for criticising whatever needs criticising otherwise things don’t improve/change.

    Also speaking as an European we might not have it as bad as the US (which is where most people are from here). Just the fact that our healtcare is free is a huge plus. When I was younger I dreamt about living in the US or even just going to NY, SF etc. Now I’m afraid I might get shot, get a huge hospital bill and come back broke. 👌

    (sorry, this comment turned out a lot longer than I wanted it to. ADHD is a bitch)

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      11 months ago

      That was sort of where I was going with my original comment.

      Capitalism isn’t perfect, but that doesn’t mean switching economic systems is going to help out, because every economic system will suck somehow… especially if the people at the top are corrupt.

      Oh I absolutely agree, we don’t have it as bad as the US. Having said that I’m from the UK, and it seems out government is very keen on trying the US style of capitalism.