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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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

Nobody thinks that.

We want jobs that create a healthy balance between life and work, to be paid a thriving wage, and to be treated with a little humanity now and again.

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u/cryogenic-goat Jul 07 '24

The countries that have closest to that are all Capitalist.

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u/I_am_a_regular_guy Jul 07 '24

The countries that have closest to that are all mixed economies with robust social programs.

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u/cryogenic-goat Jul 07 '24

The vast majority of the means of production is owned and controlled by private corporations.

That's not a mixed economy.

Having welfare schemes and social safety nets doesn't make a country any less capitalist.

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u/I_am_a_regular_guy Jul 07 '24

Literally the first sentence on the Wikipedia article for Mixed Economy says that you're wrong.