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yep, just bad.
So why is it I can walk down skid row and see how bad I is but thay isn't an example of the disaster of capitalism. Capitalism is more than the shiny things in the imperial core its also the child slaves, poverty, and unequal exchange the imperial periphery that make it possible.
Ha, ha, ha. Very good joke ooooor is it a stupidity?
It's rose colored glasses capitalists love to wear. They love to focus on the flashy life and tech of the rich countries, while completely ignoring that what is making this way of life possible for a few people comes at the expense of the working class both within their country and abroad. Capitalism isn't just rich people in America its also the slaves in the mines in Africa digging out the raw materials needed to make the whole operation profitable, with the worst effects of the system out of view of those who may see it and discover this isn't a workable system. It's also those same people who benefit from this exploitation demonizing anyone who tries to free their people from such a system the way America does.
Capitalism is all about voluntary exchange. Those things you describe only happen in socialism or its close cousin crony Capitalism, what the dictatorship now has in place in Cuba.
Nothing about capitalism is voluntary for most of the population. Any system that has people who own the means of production privately vs those means being owned collectively will result in the expansion of power by the owner class who then exploit the working class to keep them working as much as possible to gain as much as possible without care to how that may effect the people and the planet and it ignores the fact that an economy can only get so big until it inevitably crashes leaving the workers to deal with the fallout. None of that is voluntary. Also, can you just nock it off with this nonsense that capitalism hasn't been tried and all the bad things that have happened as a result of capitalism weren't real capitalism. It's dishonest, not factual, shows a lack of understanding and curiosity of these issues and hints that your the kind of person for who can't be reasoned with for you don't accept evidence you don't like. I know and understand how past socalist experiments have had their short commings and how they can do better today, for I want them to be better and ultimately liberate people from the inherently, exploitative, and in the end deadly version of capitalism that exist in the world today. If you actually want capitalism to be better, or why can't you criticize capitalism in the same way socalists do to socalism.