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[quote=Anonymous][list][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because capitalism, OP. The answer is capitalism.

No war but class war.[/quote]

[b]Capitalism is fine[/b] and private schools can do whatever they want as long as a dime of taxpayers money go there.

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imagine thinking this at this point in America. lol wtf[/quote]

DP.

Yeah! Capitalism has merely provided the highest standard of living that anyone in the history of the world has experienced.

Damn free enterprise to h*ll for that.[/quote]

Really?  Aren’t we the only country with medical-related bankruptcies?  High infant and maternal death rates?

Maybe you should be more specific.  The top 1% — probably even the top 20% do enjoy quite high standards of living — barring the occasional shooting incident and pesticides in even some of their food.  I’m curious though. How would you, personally, know about “the highest standard of living that anyone in the history of the world has experienced “?  You know about ALL of them?  Do share. [/quote]

Easy metric: Check life expectancy now vs. historical by century.

Check the rate of technological, scientific and medical innovation by century and note the explosive growth during periods of capitalism relative to all other systems.

There’s literally no serious argument to be made that we’re not better off collectively than at any other point in human history.

And WRT the present? Those other countries you’re alluding to—they’re fundamentally capitalistic systems with a bit of social welfare to blunt the sharp edges. (Which, btw, I generally agree with).

Plenty of room to criticize and improve how capitalism works. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is idiotic.[/quote]

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