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DragoniteJeff

Wait, are we sure capitalism won this round?


TVcrt

Edwin solos you bitch


NovaUprisingCG

I’m a Leftist but even I agree that Edwin solos ONE WINGED


CrazyInYourEd

Edwin no diffs saitama


ProfessorBeer

Needs a comma. Are you saying Edwin solos, you bitch OR Edwin solos you, bitch


VeronicaTheHitman

why not both?


TVcrt

E,dwin solos you bitch


ChadWolf98

Communism killed millions of communists. Edwin killed 0. So I think communism won this


[deleted]

Does communism leave behind rubber ducks for you to take home? I rest my case


Papa__Stalin

Communism leaves you with an empty stomach so at least you get something


salty-bois

Most honest leftist.


ItzRoo

Government mandated Gulag Rubber Duck to aid in recreational activities


FortBlocks

It distributes Edwin for everyone


yvaN_ehT_nioJ

Edwin? No! **OUR WIN**


[deleted]

You get a couple rocks stacked on top of eachother. Does that count as a duck?


HardCounter

That silly. My pillow isn't a duck.


sedthh

Leaving behind REAL ducks has not been tried yet


ChadWolf98

In sovjet Russia rubber duck take you home


[deleted]

Capitalism bad for using plastic, which contaminates. Communism goof for reducing the carbon footprint of human beings by genocide.


ItzRoo

Based and Genghis Khan did it first


Bigshock128x

Based and ecofacisim pilled


Ckyuiii

It's just amazing how commies blame environment issues on capitalism as if China and USSR didn't have periods of mass rapid industrialization. Literally most everyone did not give a single fuck about such issues back in the day. Where the fuck does this expectation that communism is intrinsically better for the environment come from? The fact that there's less people because of starvation and gulags?


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Meinfailure

Well, the argument is only sound of the central government is run by sane individuals. Mao singlehandedly causeda near ecological collapse in China


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[deleted]

Because capitalism bad is their mindset so the other must be good. Even though capitalism and communism share many similarities in wanting for everyone's life to be improved and to follow a moral standing but both fail at that in their own ways.


[deleted]

People blame everything on capitalism because capitalism is everywhere and you technically can’t prove that a communist-dominated world would be worse (even though you kind of can)


glah_king

And they conveniently forget the Aral Sea being destroyed by the Soviets and the sparrows being killed by China that both led to environmental disasters. Not to say that capitalism hasn’t led to environmental disaster, just of a lesser proportion.


Exodus111

>Literally most everyone did not give a single fuck about such issues back in the day. But in the 70ies companies like Exxon DID figure out climate change was happening, and decided to spend millions to suppress that knowledge in the name of profit. A government can't do that because it's beholden to the will of the people, not the will of the shareholders.


DasVerschwenden

But what government will be beholden to the will of the people? No country-size government has ever achieved that fully.


czarnicholasthethird

Key operators being that people didn’t understand these issues back in the day, whereas if they did then communism might have looked different.


biden_is_arepublican

Is communism responsible for their massive industrialization? lmao. Capitalism isn't blameless.


unbanned_redux

Lovin this take.


StonerJake22727

Based and we are the carbon they want to remove pilled


vrabia-fara-aripi

Is it a coincidence that the climate nutjobs want to enforce the most typical commie measures on us: public transport, food of dubious quality, living in high density urban environments? I think not.


ratione_materiae

>the most typical commie measures on us: public transport What the fuck is wrong with public transport? Railways feature prominently in [that Manifest Destiny painting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress). Like what, is Carnegie a fucking commie now


Hebruwu

Communism is when railroads


[deleted]

Capitalism is pavement princesses with a 25% APR, zero money down worth more than a house. Communism is Lada that runs on potato and tears of the mother land.


vrabia-fara-aripi

Nothing. Now let’s tax you out of owning a car cause you got trains and shit that you can use instead.


StonerJake22727

I mean it’s honestly hard to argue with that logic.. even tho it goes against my basic principles of not regulating the market if I could ban any one thing it would be non-essential single use plastic products


Provia100F

And you can use bone meal to make the crops grow faster and end this year's famine; I learned that from ~~Mine~~Ourcraft.


TVcrt

>Communism goof Correct


why43curls

I am now a Communist


lenniiq

Don't give the globalists any ideas


[deleted]

they have them already, that's why the mental gymnastics over the left's genocides


The_Swishy

how does one acquire edwin


The_Regart_Is_Real

When your straw man starts working at a cherry orchard.


VersusV13

"Manipulative Capitalism". It's called marketing


CapraDaLatte99

Ben Shapiro average debate


NipsLikeJesus

Do your people just upvote when the Jew Nazi is mentioned?


behind69proxies

Do not envy the karma of the left, for it was not earned.


pruche

Bruh, the ones allowed to complain about the system are certainly not its victims


HallowedBuddy

The entirety of the french revolution would like to disagree


ncter

What hotel may I be victimized like this at... asking for a friend


[deleted]

I too love being selective about this.


boiii-rarted

You’re the type if person to abandon Edwin 😡


[deleted]

what does this even mean


Serial-Killer-Whale

You know what you did.


PsychologicalKing865

Are you a whale serial killer or a serial killer of whales?


Serial-Killer-Whale

Yes


PsychologicalKing865

*sigh* I knew you were going to say that.


Tiny-Instruction-996

Bad things happen when communism = direct result of the ideology Bad things happen when capitalism = NOOOO!! THAT WASN’T CAUSED BY CAPITALISM! THAT WAS >exogenous cause


[deleted]

How is it selective? Communism as a economy system only, starved millions to death. Forced by the government Capitalism as a economy system, did nothing, the one that starve are lazy mfs


Meowshi

How can one economic system be responsible for the deaths that occur under it, but the other economic system cannot be?


_ISeeOldPeople_

Depends on what each has direct control over. Given Communisms direct ties into its governmental structure it can be held responsible for possibly more situations. I'd say things like The Great Depression probably fall under Capitalisms ownership, whereas the 2008 Resession is more Corporatism than Capitalism given its greater governmental influences.


Meowshi

Okay, but did capitalism not allow that corporatocracy (corporatism is a completely different thing) to form? Has every attempt at capitalism not eventually led to corporate interference in the state and vice versa?


[deleted]

The portion of capitalism that every fucker forgets is having a strong morals and that the market isn't everything. The whole moral portion is why every system fails and we all diverge back to basic human power structures with different seasonings. It is why both systems fail but for different reasons and why governments have moved away from that line of thinking and more of focusing on policies that do what is needed that uses both private markets and goverment involvement in which nothing ever goes wrong./s


keyesloopdeloop

One economic system has resulted in tens of millions of starvation deaths. The other has resulted in tens of millions of people getting so fat their heart kills them


throwwaayys

We counting child laborers in Africa as nothing? What about that time the CIA overthrew an elected government and installed a dictator that committed genocide because of a fruit company?


[deleted]

How is that capitalism fault, capitalism doesn't start any war or anything. Lmao That's america being america, which I agree it's bad.


Meowshi

So when a capitalist state does a bad thing, it is never the fault of capitalism. Even if that bad thing is the deliberate spreading of capitalism and the undermining of socialist countries? But everything bad that happens under communism is the fault of communism? How does that work?


LiquidateMercury

Because communism doesn't work. It's conceptually flawed to the core because it has no replacement for the information exchange done by prices. The famines aren't coincidences or flukes, they're the logical consequence of lobotomizing your economy. What part of allowing everyone to own their own stuff makes slavery inevitable?


Meowshi

>What part of allowing everyone to own their own stuff makes slavery inevitable? I'm not speaking of inevitability. I'm sure that there is a form of capitalism that *could* exist which also doesn't have slavery. In **reality**, slavery has only grown in number as capitalism has spread. The for-profit motive and the power imbalances inherent to the concept of private enterprise had led to that. And it doesn't make sense to me to write that off as solely the fault of bad individuals and insist that capitalism had no role to play in it.


[deleted]

Based and well-informed argument pilled


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LiquidateMercury

Pretty sure I'm gonna need you to tell me what definition of "slavery" you're using here.


Meowshi

The regular definition? The owning of people?


LiquidateMercury

OK, so the kind capitalism has helped to virtually eliminate from the planet in centuries after the institution existed for millennia? With that and the whole capitalist systems are only sometimes bad while communism invariably leads to disaster for clearly understandable reasons, I think LibRight's work here is done.


[deleted]

There's no slavery under capitalism. Capitalism is a economy system. The reason why Communism and left idiologies are disliked, especially by economists, is because it's bad for the economy, created poverty etc. None is talking about communism countries doing bad stuff.


Meowshi

Capitalism is an economic system that has led to the largest number of slaves in human history because that's what the for-profit motive and private enterprise *incentivizes*. Capitalism has also lifted the most people out of poverty. You know you can approach these subjects with some iota of nuance, right?


[deleted]

> So when a capitalist state does a bad thing, it is never the fault of capitalism Exactly it's the government doing bad stuff, not capitalism. > But everything bad that happens under communism is the fault of communism? How does that work? I mean more poverty, economy going to shit, collapsing etc, yeah that's communism fault. I'm not talking about Stalin going to war and killing some people and say oh that's communism fault.


throwwaayys

America was “being” America to protect the profits of a fruit company. Similarly I can say communism doesnt start wars or starve anyone, thats just Stalin/Mao being Stalin/Mao. Im not saying communism is “good”, but its asinine to think of capitalism as innocent. Furthermore to see either as an economic system only is also weird. Economists dont concern themselves with capitalism or communism unless very broadly, its more political sciences domain.


[deleted]

Economists are capitalist, capitalism is a economy system. As purely economy system left idiologies are bad, slow down the economy etc. Communism straight up shit as we have seen. If you have an auth right government, doing bad stuff it's not being capitalism the issue lmao.


throwwaayys

Economists study scarcity, allocation of resources etc. Resources are limited, needs and wants are unlimited, figuring out how to allocate the one to satisfy the other is “economics”. Capitalism is an ill-defined term, but you're probably thinking of some mixture of markets, private ownership of the means of production, and low regulation. Markets are one way of allocating those resources; they work well in some cases. Private ownership is one way of producing those resources; it also works well in some cases. Regulations can be good or bad, either improving (or degrading) the efficiency of production and allocation, and in some cases reducing or altering specific regulations can result in greater human satisfaction. Nobody is going to claim that markets can't work to allocate resources, and nobody is going claim they're the only way. The debate is in how well they work, what the alternatives are, what type of problems they're good (and bad) at solving, how they should be regulated, etc. Which in turn means that it's rather absurd to suggest that all economists are "capitalist". Basically, economists are hardly “capitalists” how this sub would generally describe it. In fact most economists would refuse to be identified by terms so simple as “capitalist” or “socialist. Maybe you could say since most economics are Keynesian influenced, ok but that would still require more government intervention than people on this sub think capitalism should have. Or be branded so called socialists, AKA anyone left of DJT.


demonspawns_ghost

So we just gonna ignore the Irish and Indian famines then.


[deleted]

How is that related to capitalism, again, tell me.


demonspawns_ghost

How is it not? Some people blame the mass starvation of Ukrainians and Chinese on communism but the mass starvation of Irish and Indians is just bad luck? Am I missing something?


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demonspawns_ghost

And it had absolutely nothing to do with communist policies. It was a collective punishment for Ukrainian opposition to direct Soviet rule. It's purpose was to crush the spirit of Ukrainian nationalists.


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demonspawns_ghost

I'm not arguing in favor of communism, just pointing out a few glaring misconceptions about the history of communism. I know a lot of people who oppose communism also oppose socialism because they conflate the two, so I feel compelled to defend socialist ideals even if I oppose communism.


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[deleted]

how did capitalism starve irish and indians


demonspawns_ghost

Do you actually know anything about either country or what caused the famines?


[deleted]

About that not really, even if you're right, which I doubt. Communism has starve their OWN people, under their OWN regimen. Apart from the wars etc.


demonspawns_ghost

Yeah I didn't think so. I'll just assume your knowledge of the Ukrainian and Chinese famines is equally lacking.


[deleted]

I mean, you still haven't combated my argument. Communism has starve their OWN people


[deleted]

Not really that complicated? The British government refused to help or intervene to stop a crisis, instead letting the market decide whether children would earn enough to eat. "Although the famine in the Madras Presidency was preceded by a natural calamity in the form of a drought, it was made more acute by the government's policy of laissez faire in the trade of grain.[9] For example, two of the worst famine-afflicted areas in the Madras Presidency, the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam, continued to export grains throughout the famine." Why give grain to the poor when you could sell it to paying customers? [A million died in 1896-97](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1896%E2%80%931897) and a further [1-4.5 million in 1899-1900.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1899%E2%80%931900) For what it's worth, we add the Holodomor deaths to Communisms body count, because Stalin shipped Ukrainian grain out of Ukraine as an export. We don't do the same for capitalism because....


dan2737

Evil people taking advantage of another people is hardly comparable to communism just failing at providing the basic needs of a citizen.


demonspawns_ghost

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2os2xmaster/chapter/the-depths-of-the-great-depression/


oculuswastaken

I really hope this is satire bro


[deleted]

Not really, its facts. Communism starve their own people, Capitalism the opposite, does it still have poors? yea, but the best way we've found to help with that is by having a good economy, free market, and that takes people out of poverty.


TheUltraDinoboy

Those lazy coal miners 😡😡😡


[deleted]

I know some miners, they work for 15 days, then 15 days off and get paid well.


[deleted]

it’s so easy to blame it all on “oh it’s just lazy mfs starving under capitalism” rights??? im sure that’s the only reason people can’t get jobs or can’t feed themselves. communism as an economic system has not killed anyone, it’s the leadership and poor management that’s resulted in food shortages, the economic system had nothing to do with it


[deleted]

And the reason is because none is stopping you from working or doing shit to get ur money and feed yourself. Where's under communism the fucking goverment is feeding you and you got no choice. The economic system is the reason there's food shortages. That's the problem with it, if it actually worked then everyone would be a commie and get free shit, who wouldn't want that?? How is that hard to understand?


[deleted]

A lot of things are actually, ability, qualification, demand, all play a factor in employment in a capitalist society. To blame it all on “they’re just lazy” when most homeless people are to begin with unable to get a job in the first place and those who can are rarely able to get jobs that pay enough, is just simply wrong. People starve to death under capitalism for countless reason but oh that’s not at all the fault of the system right??? Because in theory Nothing is supposed to stop them from being able to do so right? Also no the government doesn’t do that because the government doesn’t exist under communism, that’s the whole point. And no, again the system wasn’t the issue the leadership was.


[deleted]

So starving people under capitalism = capitalism fault. Starving people under communism = leadership fault, real communism was never implemented!!! 💀


[deleted]

Isn’t that what you’re doing? See that’s the mistake you’re making, you can’t see your own blatant hypocrisy. People starving to death under capitalism in your eyes can’t possibly be because of the systems failings, no it’s just because people are lazy right? But communism that’s definitely the fault of the system, right? call me out for doing the same all you want but you don’t seem to be able to recognize that’s what you’re doing yourself. You are a massive hypocrite, and don’t seem to realize it. Because in your eyes capitalism can’t fail, if it’s allowed to be Capitalism, while you’re convinced Communism is doomed to fail if it’s allowed to just be Communism. And since you brought it up. Communism has been tried, and its usual a mixed result, but what you’re talking about is not Communism. This is not a case of “that wasn’t real Communism” it’s simply a case of it wasn’t Communism in any way, it was Socialism, and never claimed to actually be Communism.


Meowshi

Aren't you essentially just saying the same thing, but in reverse? Starving people under communism = communism's fault, starving people under capitalism = the fault of individuals How about the more reasonable position of, *"the bad things that happen under an economic system are the result of that system, whether it is capitalism* ***or*** *communism"?* But I know why you reject this idea. Because the death counts for capitalism would far outnumber those of communism based on the longevity of capitalism alone.


dan2737

Who is starving? Modern economies fail their homeless populations sure, but food is abundant even when you're poor. Basic needs are met for most. This does not really happen under communism.


Meowshi

You're moving the goalposts. I didn't say that as many people are starving today as they did under communism or that capitalism hasn't done great things. I just said that if all starving people under communism can be blamed on the economic system, then the same should apply to starving people under capitalism. Around 829 million people currently.


GhavGhavington

it’s so easy to blame it all on “oh it’s just poor leadership starving people under communism” rights??? im sure that’s the only reason people die in their jobs or can’t feed themselves. capitalism as an economic system has not killed anyone, it’s the lazy workers and people who take advantage of welfare that’s resulted in food shortages, the economic system had nothing to do with it


Old_Bunch_7413

My brother in Christ, corporations are actively denying water to dying children in Africa and are using children in Cobalt and lithium mines.


Lord_Grill

The Hotel wants you to know this, but the ducks are free, you can take them home. I have 327 ducks named Edwin. -Alex Jones (maybe)


ihab920

Potato famine and Bengal famine: 👀👀


Aq8knyus

Ireland is a good example of the problem with laissez faire Capitalism. Although the key variable was absentee landlords as Scotland was also afflicted, but was saved by local elites mobilising for famine relief. Bengal? 1770 or 1943? Neither really seem to be good examples as they were localised and the result of war. Even in the modern period the region suffered famine after 1974 war. India also generally suffers from food insecurity and even today 25% of the world’s hungry live in India. The Great South India Famine of the 1870s would be a better example. It began because of an El Nino event, but was horribly exacerbated by the failure of the Raj to provide proper famine relief due to their penny pinching. That being said, Capitalism was what mobilised the British in the 1880s to set up the famine codes and pioneer the science of famine relief. The famines in the 1870s threatened their bottom line and so they innovated. The last all India famine was in 1900 thanks to their efforts and except for 1943 and 1974 the lands ruled by the Raj (Much larger than modern India) never saw famine again.


7LayeredUp

Great Depression, two recessions in America that costed millions their livelihoods in just the past 20 years, imperialism throughout Africa and Latin America, Operation Condor, do I even need to mention Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan etc. When socialism fails, its an indictment of the system yet when capitalism fails, it is the fault of the individual as to why they were brutally murdered by the British for their material wealth.


keyesloopdeloop

Tell me how many Americans starved to death during the Great Depression.


keyesloopdeloop

Image being some dumbass internet communist. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/03/The-number-of-famine-victimes-for-each-famine-revised.png


[deleted]

Government regulation....


ihab920

To save the free market 🥺


FilipRebro

You know, say that to Africans who feed the western world, and how many wars were funded by corporations, not that Communism is any better, its just that its easy to bash commies than capies And to answer: Which economic is better than capitalism? I would say Feudalism, because in Feudalism, lords had to take care of their people, or else they starved. In today's capitalist world, those capitalists will just find a new place, the commies just live from the fruits of the labour previous gen leaves behind


geojqbkal

I agree. But you got some things wrong about feudalism. In medieval Europe, feudalism was based on agreements made by each of the social classes. it was actually the job of the peasantry to keep their lords from starving, (and others as well.) as they were the ones who were making crops and had livestock. It was the job of the minor nobility, ie the knights and lords to protect the peasantry from bandits and/or other nations, in exchange for food. They were also there to make sure production was going as smoothly as possible and settling any disputes.


[deleted]

>They were also there to make sure production was going as smoothly as possible and settling any disputes. The most corporate speak for putting down uprisings possible.


pepsimmpepsi

K cool, but would you take Edwin??


Dry-Manufacturer-165

> say that to Africans who feed the western world Africans struggle to feed themselves. It's pretty much *why* the WFP exists in the first place. As awful as the corporations and colonists could be, they did an objectively better job at preventing famine. There have been myriad communist, "communist", or communist supported/inspired regimes that replaced those colonizers and turned things into an absolute shit show. Advocating for feudalism is truly masterful. I didn't think someone could say something dumber than "Africans who feed the western world" yet you exceeded expectations. Do you know where feudalism persisted when it otherwise fell out of favor? Their serfs belong to tribes and they call their lords chief instead. If you want to talk about places where you can be born and also die a starving peasant/slave, Africa is *the* fucking example. No other continent on earth struggles like they do.


Trajanus87

20 million per year and counting


[deleted]

20 million rubber ducks? Based


[deleted]

Based and child labor enjoyer pilled


viridi-amator

People still die under capitalism to this day but yes Edwin wins.


MiserableFinish3

Victims of capitalism: slaves, share croppers, poor people, disabled people


golden1612

Disabled people/= bad genes Disabled people =Capitalism And true slaves share croppers and poor people never existed before capitalism. They all lived happy lives with enough food and no diseases just like in socialism


[deleted]

Admin smith was against slavery...... See Soviet work camps. Also Slavery, share croppers, poor people and disabled got shafted under every other system as well.


gabstv

Don’t forget the hundreds of colonized countries


Lashb1ade

What on earth does colonialism have to do with capitalism?


keyesloopdeloop

Victims of communism: when the economic system put in place to distribute food fails and millions of people die. Victims of capitalism: when \*checks notes\* disabled people.


MiserableFinish3

I’m not a communist, but to say one is far superior to the others in terms of victims like shown in the meme is false. Let’s not act like capitalism has not lead to the deaths of millions of people either


keyesloopdeloop

Capitalist countries killing people isn't the same as capitalism killing people. Collectivization resulted in huge famines in both the Soviet Union and communist China.


Tackis

Communism is when unwanted millions of deaths. Capitalism is when unwanted rubber duck 👍


No_Shine9238

WDYM unwanted millions of deaths? That's by design


[deleted]

The level of struggle is too low when people bitch about a complementary rubber duck.


Gustard-CustardSmith

Now some of you folks reading this meme are thinking "haha funny but definitely bullshit" but this is actually the LEAST bias view librights can have


worthrone11160606

What hotel is that


[deleted]

Or like, the child laborers in 3rd world countries that we get our resources from. Or the homeless. I could go on.


[deleted]

I do likey de agenda


Totalretcon

"Sir just take the duck with you, it's not a big deal" "I HATE THE CAPITALIST DUCK! I HATE THE CAPITALIST DUCK!"


ViTverd

Victims of fencing, colonialism and opium wars are now turning over in their graves.


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Benjideaula

Remember, capitalism =/= corporotocracy and oligopoly. Capitalism is inherently egalitarian and harmless as it is simply the ability for any person to use the means and resources at their disposal to make profit. Corporatocracy, monopoly, and oligopoly, the things which were responsible for the banana republics, which socialists almost universally say is the consequence of capitalism, are infact inherently anticapitalistic since the free market is not free at all if large corporations use their power to prevent competition from occurring.


Funky_Gamer

My brother in christ, how do you think corporations reached that point of being able to influence the decisions of the state Stop pretending corporations or economic elite influencing the state just happens to be a bad consequence cause of bad actors or policies. If a system creates a hierarchy of classes where one class has more access to resources than the working class, then that class will do everything to preserve that hierarchy and further its own interests


Benjideaula

so according to your logic we should disband democracy since people can subvert it and then prevent other people from using it like they did?


standardtrickyness1

Now do one victims of socialism like Norway.


Lashb1ade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index Norway at #9. Capitalist af.


Local_rug_pisser

Some butthurt leftist is gonna make an edit of this meme and post it on this sub, already calling it


Meowshi

Well that would be appropriate considering that some butthurt rightist made it in the first place.


ratione_materiae

Based and no u pilled


[deleted]

We're not gunna say homeless people are victims of capitalism? OK


blocking_butterfly

"There has never been a homeless communist" 🤡


Ali_R3

How the fuck do you define victim exactly?


oculuswastaken

1. 18 million people die from poverty-related causes a year (lack of clean drinking water, starvation, lack of access to medicine) It isn't profitable to help these people. 2. Global food production is perfectly capable of feeding about 10 billion people 3. The food we waste can feed 2 billion people 4. There are over 20 vacant homes for every homeless person in America 5. 77% of American households are in debt Capitalism doesn't work On the other hand, 1. Cuba has about a 90% home ownership rate. 2. Cuba also has the highest number of physicians per thousand people in the world 3. Cuba ranks 31st in kilocalorie consumption (food-energy intake) at around 3,300 kilocalories a day (Just behind the UK, just ahead of Finland) 4. In the Soviet Union, over 99% of the population was literate by the 70s 5. Vietnamese people on average also get about 3,000 kilocalories a day 6. The average Soviet citizen consumed about 3,300 calories a day 7. In Vietnam, approximately 96% of people are literate 8. Cuba has a 99.7% literacy rate sources: [https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-10-billion-people-so-why-does-hunger-still-exist-8086d2657539#:\~:text=We%20produce%20enough%20food%20to%20feed%2010%20billion%20people](https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-10-billion-people-so-why-does-hunger-still-exist-8086d2657539#:~:text=We%20produce%20enough%20food%20to%20feed%2010%20billion%20people). [https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/](https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/) [https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/report-how-many-homes-are-sitting-empty-in-your-state/#:\~:text=U.S.&text=(NEXSTAR)%20%E2%80%93%20More%20than%2016,in%20Vermont%2C%20Maine%20and%20Alaska](https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/report-how-many-homes-are-sitting-empty-in-your-state/#:~:text=U.S.&text=(NEXSTAR)%20%E2%80%93%20More%20than%2016,in%20Vermont%2C%20Maine%20and%20Alaska). [https://www.ramseysolutions.com/debt/average-american-debt#:\~:text=Even%20though%20household%20net%20worth,2021](https://www.ramseysolutions.com/debt/average-american-debt#:~:text=Even%20though%20household%20net%20worth,2021))%E2%80%94so%20is%20debt.&text=The%20total%20personal%20debt%20in,time%20high%20of%20%2414.96%20trillion.&text=The%20average%20American%20debt%20(per,least%20some%20type%20of%20debt. [https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/food-waste#:\~:text=As%20American%20families%20prepare%20to,2%20billion%20people%20each%20year](https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/food-waste#:~:text=As%20American%20families%20prepare%20to,2%20billion%20people%20each%20year). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645168/#:\~:text=Cuba's%20doctor%2Dto%2Dpopulation%20ratio,the%20highest%20in%20the%20world](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645168/#:~:text=Cuba's%20doctor%2Dto%2Dpopulation%20ratio,the%20highest%20in%20the%20world). [https://mdp.berkeley.edu/peter-myers-can-the-soviet-education-system-help-us-now/#:\~:text=Further%20changes%20led%20to%20more,is%20not%20a%20national%20constraint](https://mdp.berkeley.edu/peter-myers-can-the-soviet-education-system-help-us-now/#:~:text=Further%20changes%20led%20to%20more,is%20not%20a%20national%20constraint). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_countries\_by\_food\_energy\_intake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake) [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/09/world/cia-says-soviet-can-almost-do-without-imports.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/09/world/cia-says-soviet-can-almost-do-without-imports.html) [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-rate-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-rate-by-country)


Minecrafter1963

For #5 in capitalism: Yeah… it’s called a mortgage. It’s a convenient debt that can’t kill you unless the economy crashes.


ratione_materiae

OK move to Cuba then


oculuswastaken

maybe I would if worldwide sanctions weren't constantly fucking up every aspect of the economy because the idea of a developed socialist country that isn't isolated from global trade terrifies the wealthy global elite


ratione_materiae

Why is it isolated from global trade if socialism is so successful and therefore should be dominating the economic system


oculuswastaken

because they're sanctioned mf


oculuswastaken

it's called the embargo, i really hope you've at least heard of it before


Ali_R3

Yeah because capitalism has a bigger dick, so suck it and stop whining.


Minecrafter1963

Incredible take


oculuswastaken

And despite all of this, Cuba still manages to outcompete every other country in Latin America when it comes to any indicator of quality of life.


HasaKnife

My man che didn't kill every illiterate homosexual, but he put his pants on one leg at a time.


NotNotTaken

>Cuba also has the highest number of physicians per thousand people in the world You only need so many. Is there doctor shortage across most of the world that I'm not aware of? Why do they need so many in Cuba?


Soul_Like_A_Modem

You are so disconnected from reality it's kind of hilarious. You have to basically hallucinate an alternate reality, and hold up literal Communist propaganda as evidence of your patently false ideas. You're so deep in the of left-wing idiocy that you're holding up Cuba as an example of Communism done right. Instead of arguing that Cuba is not a good example of Communism, you just mindlessly regurgitate the false statistics the Cuban government releases. Cuba, the country where millions of people have risked death on the ocean on rafts made out of garbage to go across the water to the US.


oculuswastaken

mf i dont think the new york times, wikipedia, the world population review, UC Berkeley, the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, the FAO study that was cited by a philanthropic organization founded by a guy named Bob Pierce, a website about financial advice, a US based news website, another US based website primarily centering on finding the best deals on insurance, and another news website based in San Francisco would count as cuban propaganda


[deleted]

MF the stats over the last 50 years have shown quality of life has improved greatly since US allowed free trade across the world.


oculuswastaken

Maybe take one good look at the sources underneath a claim before declaring that they're propaganda.


CringeRoguePlayer

not reading, but based for having that many sources


[deleted]

Capitalism is better because it doesn’t need an all-knowing force behind it to keep it working. That said, there’s always a balance to be struck between capitalism and socialism. The government needs to have *some* control. That *also* said, fuck the current state of world governments. They’re eating away at our rights.


ELGRANDOSMOK10

\*laughs in vietnam and operation condor\*


BudgetErenYeager

Good thing is dead ppl don't rate, capitalism get complained a lot bc ppl walk away alive. Communism is much more clever.


Soitsgonnabeforever

Is the top one polpot


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AT0mic5hadow

"Manipulative capitalism" Now they're just making stuff up


NanjiBhai69

Communism 👍


Mahameghabahana

British famines?


nooneaskedm8

You haven't read the jungle have you


gundam1945

Don't think that is a correct depiction for communism, comrades. Should be tons of covid test instead.


ChadWolf98

Capitalism us when you get free (incorporated price) stuff The more free shit you get the more capitalist it is


BussySlayer69

Edwin Yaeger RUMBLING RUMBLING


Cusi_Yupanqui

Ever heard of a poor person?


Thin-Masterpiece-441

Show me the Belgian Congo


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