Its All About Choice
The fundamental difference between capitalism and leftist collectivism like socialism, fascism and communism is that only in capitalism do you have a choice.
"Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution." - Ben Shapiro
You're either laughing or you're learning.
"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it." - Thomas Sowell
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Lol so uncivilized 😭
Most of those are indeed funny, but I'm not so sure this is the right approach towards those issue (as I'm not sure that digging into the issues makes a lot of sense under a comedy post either).
Still, I'd like to point out that even in the countries people are running to like the US you don't have unchecked capitalism, let alone anarchy. There are indeed a lot of things that are taken from you (like taxes and time for jury duty) that go to something that benefit s the whole market giving it stability, predictability and interoperability that the market and capitalism cannot really create on their own.
If you really want to dig into it and look at it critically, all countries operate on something like a sliding scale and if we want to be more precise there are multiple sliding scales for different issues and aspects of society and the state. Saying that the slider needs to be cranked up to either end is naive and demonstrably incorrect.
I personally want to live in a capitalist society, but I do support progressive taxes, free/government-sanctioned basic health care and education and social support programs for the poorest and I see this as fully justified, reasonable and moral.
Government should act as referee and not be taking part in the game as they do with monetary policy, healthcare, education and all the other pies they have their greedy little fingers in. That is the reason a lot of countries are the the mess they are in, much like the US, an unfathomable amount of debt.
The sliding scale should be moved and the free market naturally does that, the state is the one messing up that balance. To look at the current balance sheet and think that short term government stability is beneficial is naive. It also very naive to think you can tax any country into prosperity, by incentivizing the poor not to work in exchange for other people’s money.
The reason I take the comedic approach to these issues is because, people think that voting to take someone’s stuff through government taxation is justified and moral. It’s funnu like when you see someone saying a fish is a cat, and no matter what anybody says they are convinced that the fish is a cat, even after it sofocates to death.
Then there’s the irony of being on Steemit which is driven by capitalism and fundamentals originated from a lack of trust in government monetary policy.