Oh stop. I am not assuming anything. You are talking about different levels of scope. I have empathy and try to help others too - but I also want to be able to thrive in an economy that often rewards merit. And a “world without work, without hardship, and without suffering” sounds like Utopian nonsense. Trying to…

No, Communism as a system isn’t inhumane at all. It is the people who are. No different. The major problem with Communism is that it runs against human nature, while Capitalism tends to run with it.

Yea, you set a metric you can arbitrarily judge. Nice try, but I know if I name literally anyone, you will reach for any opportunity to blame them for anything. Naw, I don’t play stupid games.

And European nations are small, often homogeneous nations. Comparing them to the US doesn’t really work.

Can’t disagree. Doesn’t mean we throw the baby out with the bathwater though. Just got to fix what is broken... lol, because Congress will get right on that.

Every citizen, every entity, is indebted to their community to make that place, and our larger populace, better.

It isn’t the crux of my argument. I was explaining a point-of-view to you, not arguing for or against it. And your examples are still shit. Comparing someone living in a tornado prone area to someone drinking too much coke is fucking laughable. I was more than happy to discuss this, but you aren’t really trying…

So you’re ok with single payer healthcare but only for certain diseases and illnesses that according to you are only due to lifestyle choices? Your position is getting more silly as you go.

It is like you didn’t read what I wrote.

In your second paragraph, you describe Anarcho-Capitalism and thus make my point for me.

“Red America” are the same folks bitching about losing their social programs (healthcare) right now - they can support a free market and still want gov’t support. They are not mutually exclusive. And the rich lobbying is 100% a goddamn problem - I do not support lobbying. Nor do most Americans, really. Of course,…

That was what I was pointing out. My whole post was a rebuttal of the idea that everyone who supports capitalism is a fundamentalist Anarcho-Capitalist and that the GOP is a goddamn travesty.

Keeping what you earned which I’m going to assume you mean paying less taxes is just a fancy of saying “fuck you, I got mine”

Please stop assuming that “free market” is somehow code for Anarcho-Capitalism. Knowing the difference is important. All of your examples are ridiculous and entirely based on an incorrect assumption.

I am not a fan of the stock market. I view it as a scheme by the rich, for the rich. But that is my personal bias and not necessarily a mark against capitalism, which has existed without a stock market historically.

Well, this was going well until you went off the deep end with assumptions and common fallacies. You definitely can’t seem to separate A-C from capitalism as a whole.

To be fair, that sort of Anarcho-Capitalism isn’t ever what the GOP claimed to want anyhow. Or at least not in my recent memory.

Communism doesn’t factor in human nature. It is doomed because of that. Capitalism suits our nature because we naturally wish to succeed and flourish. You say “short-sighted” and yet we have massive industries who exist to help the environment and they are thriving. You say “greedy”, but I see ambition. You say…

No, it doesn’t support your argument at all. There is nothing wrong with being a billionaire. At all. There is everything wrong with being a piece of shit human. Those two things do not always intersect though. Nor must they.

Communism is a bad system for humans. Capitalism seems to suit our nature better. But yea, people ruin everything.