cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 days agoBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1768arrow-down158cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1710arrow-down1imageBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netcm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square95fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down8·3 days agoQuick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·3 days 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-down1·3 days agoIt sounds like you’re describing a free market, not capitalism.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·3 days agoCrippling medical debt.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down11·3 days 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-down9·3 days 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-22 days ago“It’s socialism when the government does things”
Quick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
American healthcare?
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”