cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1783arrow-down158cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1725arrow-down1imageBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netcm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down8·1 year agoQuick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·1 year agoThere’s nothing capitalist about American healthcare. If we had a free market I’d be able to buy my antidepressants ($15/mo) without seeing a doctor ($120).
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIt sounds like you’re describing a free market, not capitalism.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 year agoCrippling medical debt.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down11·1 year agoBy “crippling” here you mean unable to participate in the market. That’s the thing that’s crippled when debt affects a person’s life. A socialist had no access to the market anyway. They’re born into that crippled state.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down9·1 year agoLeading to lack of material resources? Here’s some socialists feeling the effects of centrally-controlled economic distributuon:
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year ago“It’s socialism when the government does things”
Quick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
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There’s nothing capitalist about American healthcare. If we had a free market I’d be able to buy my antidepressants ($15/mo) without seeing a doctor ($120).
It sounds like you’re describing a free market, not capitalism.
Crippling medical debt.
Crippling student debt
By “crippling” here you mean unable to participate in the market. That’s the thing that’s crippled when debt affects a person’s life.
A socialist had no access to the market anyway. They’re born into that crippled state.
Raises below inflation
Leading to lack of material resources?
Here’s some socialists feeling the effects of centrally-controlled economic distributuon:
“It’s socialism when the government does things”