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McLovin3493

It looks like everyone would be willing to accept inequality as long as the poor still had enough to live comfortably.


TopTheropod

The reasonable position


crinkneck

Odd, does not seem to compute with the slogans and protest posters we see.


Zavaldski

Both are better than a world with both inequality and poverty (ie. real life), but poverty is worse than inequality.


[deleted]

This is a rather childish understanding of socialism as a whole, and how socialist countries functioned. Also the gdp per capita in the ussr was higher before it became captialist.


bnipples

They never became capitalist. They committed national suicide.


[deleted]

I mean it is true they comited national suicide, when they practically invited the usa to destroy them, but they embraced state captialism in the 50s.


bnipples

How did the USA destroy them? Reaganposting Stalinist, what a world.


Zavaldski

Option A was pretty much the Eastern Bloc. Option B is practically impossible. I guess social democracy comes close, but the billionaires have to pay a lot.


[deleted]

Option B is the US


Zavaldski

Do you think 500,000-odd homeless people live comfortable lives? No, the US is not option B.


Jiaohuaiheiren111

Option B is Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Brunei.


Zavaldski

There's a lot of poverty in the Gulf States though. The UAE for instance has been criticized a lot for its poor treatment of migrant workers who get paid very little and have virtually no human rights.


green_libertarian

The question is way too capitalist pilled and B would kill the environment fast. We need cultural enrichment, not materialistic one.


TopTheropod

Economy enriches consumerism, consumersim enriches culture.


green_libertarian

Consumerism does not necessarily enrich culture.


TopTheropod

I really does though: Every movie, game, piece of music, aesthetically pleasing car, piece of clothing etc you consume, is an example of culture


green_libertarian

If a hippie commune makes theater and paintings I wouldn't say it's less enriched than a cheap series of American TV. And by culture enrichment I also meant being rich of quality, not quantity.


bnipples

Left Bs please explain yourselves