• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Socialism does not need to be regulated by a government. It’s a form of economy. However, we currently socialize many industries in a capitalist nation, and by socializing more industries, we can improve the lives of poor people at the expense of the wealthy, effectively keeping capitalism more equitable.

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        It’s okay to be a social democrat, buddy, welfare states are perfectly acceptable forms of ideological liberalism.

        One might even call it a step on the path to actual socialism. Someone should write a book about these transitionary states, perhaps leading to the eventual withering of the state entirely.

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          7 months ago

          What do you propose as an alternative way to address the wealth inequality without completely redesigning capitalism?

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            Have you considered… Abolishing capitalism?

            Weird idea, I wonder if there’s literally millions of pages of thought on how to do that, or if some state somewhere just, like, didn’t let individuals own factories and such

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              Sure. I was 20 once. I’m asking realistically. How would you propose addressing the wealth inequality within the means of our current system?

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                Our current system isn’t even that old. Burn it down. Stop internalizing the idea that capitlaism is necessary or inevitable.

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                  Then I hope you like eating dent corn. The US produces a fraction of its resources, addressing the economy with a full upheaval would inevitably deflate the US Dollar enough to destroy our import/export trade for quite a while.