And stealing is bad.
Most recently, my Uber driver was a 20-something year old from Brazil who thought capitalism was evil and seriously wanted to bring back communism. She went on a long rant about capitalism, how we need a revolution and how communism was going to make things better.
- "Have you lived in Communism?"
- "No, but I read about it"
The grass is always greener, especially if you read books that tell you how it's so much greener on the other side.
Have there been any actual communist states?
For that matter, is the US a "capitalist state" or just something flawed in the vicinity of an ideal.
People can rightly complain of Citizens United and extreme wealth disparity without wanting some farcical wealth leveling via a Bolshevist revolution and a bunch of tossers rabbiting on about Marxism | Leninism while imprisoning millions.
Its all fake. Lies, ego, corruption, vapid vanity.
Much of the region is socialist. Much of the region is deeply corrupt. Citizens protest endlessly against their governments for said corruption. Citizens think the solution to their problems is more government control over their economies...by the same corrupt government that they're protesting.
I think the real problem is that people in the region deeply think that their own well being is somebody else's problem to solve. Taking control over your own life is anathema.
Good capitalists reinvest in better technology, processes and the labor force that executes their mission. That’s how you stay competitive.
Regardless of whether an economy is capitalist, socialist, communist, whatever, there will be wealth hoarders and exploiters. This is not intrinsic to any economic system, but rather human nature.
"Nah, if it happens we'll just start selling hammer and sickle t-shirts."
Looking how it's currently normalized that every activist of any kind has a book to sell I'm beginning to think that at some point they really started selling those Ts.
Che Guevara t-shirts have been a thing for a long, long time now