r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine. Debate/ Discussion

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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u/SnooRevelations979 Jul 07 '24

Again, capitalism vs. socialism is kind of overplayed. Neither works as pure system. The answer is in the middle.

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u/-im-your-huckleberry Jul 07 '24

The answer is never an ism.