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My girlfriend thinks capitalism is fine and doesn’t care about billionaires existing.
She’s never had a minimum wage job or worked in the service industry 🙄
Just curious, what is the alternative you propose? We have seen communism, that doesn't work either.
In my country we also have capatalism but we still have workers rights and all of that. It is just in America that employers managed to get everything their way. Other countries have free markets without abusing their workers.
We have seen authoritarian communism that regressed into autocratic nationalist imperialist communism. We have also seen authoritarian communism that has shifted into state capitalism. Just like there are many variations of capitalism that we have and have not seen, there are likewise many of socialism and even communism that we have and have not seen.
Not sure what you mean by "authoritarian," all governments are instruments of class oppression and socialist states oppress the bourgeoisie, but no socialist state has been imperialist before. Further, "state capitalism" refers to a system of heavily planned but ultimately dominated by private property, such as Singapore, South Korea, and Bismark's Germany, and as such I'm not sure what you're referencing here either.