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Why leftist philosophies will never produce Utopia
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: ChaoticOrder
Maybe give me a minute or two to take all that in.
I'm sure I have some dumb response to give.
Why leftist philosophies will never produce Utopia
Many intellectuals on the left speak of life extension technology or even immortality...
because we know socialism works so well
Fertilizer
That's just how much they care about saving every human life they can. They tell us to drive less, eat less, shower less, buy less, go out less, don't warm your house so much, eat insects instead of meat, it goes on and on...
Really? Only on the left? Hilarious.
Scandavia, albeit on a smaller scale, is much happier, healthier and more concerned about the well-being of their citizens than the US. (Not saying perfect)
So yes, it actually totally does work.
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
The way I see it, the most successful economies on Earth have embraced capitalism, and some of the most unsuccessful have rejected free-market philosophies in preference for socialism or communism. It's easy to blame capitalism for everything because it does have problems, and the US health system is particularly broken.
There are plenty of capitalist nations which have great health care systems, and they are mostly funded by tax payers. I think most people can agree that health care is one thing our taxes should fund because we all get sick. As I've said a million times before, some socialist policies can work very well when properly balanced with capitalism.
We have many social services that our taxes fund, and they benefit society immensely. The real problem is when we allow excessive socialist policies to undermine the foundations of capitalism. We cannot ignore free-market philosophies and assume socialism will create a utopia despite its countless failures throughout history.
Printing endless amounts of money will not solve inequality, it will only create massive inflation and make us all poorer in the long run, which is exactly what has happened throughout this pandemic due to astronomical levels of pandemic relief spending. Combine that with increased taxes to fund the nanny state and we are sucked dry.
In 3 years we will see the outcome of this leftist push to dismantle capitalism, but will their economic policies work in practice? Economics is a very complex thing and I've spent a long time studying what makes a prosperous society. I've written several threads over the years which explain many of these concepts in fairly simple terms.
The intrinsic necessity of capitalism
Why Free Market Capitalism Creates Prosperity
The Supremacy of Westernized Asian Nations
Why Increased Socialism Leads to Increased Prices
Why Excessive Socialism Doesn't Work
Flawed Logic of The Venus Project
Debunking Post Capitalism
Is a double edged sword, because it seeps into the groundwater and a lot of the current products are under suspicion to be crazy cancerogenic.