You see poverty, crime and violence in most countries.
There is no official ranking of capitalist countries, but the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom probably comes close:
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
The top 3 countries are Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand. The bottom three are North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.
I think violence is perhaps a bit more balanced; you see violence in Hong Kong and Venezuela, for example. And perhaps the crime rate is the same in North Korea and Singapore. But when it comes to poverty, it's pretty clear that you're better off in the countries at the top rather than the ones at the bottom.
To conclude that these are properties of capitalism you need to examine both capitalist and non-capitalist societies and observe that capitalist societies exhibit poverty, crime and violence (true), and that non-capitalist societies don't (false).
Not really. If I state that humans are mammals and one of their properties is that they need to breathe air, I'm under no obligation to demonstrate that there are mammals that don't breathe air. And nor does the existence of non-mammals that do breathe air invalidate my point.
But I understand your point that perhaps these are not necessarily inherent to Capitalism. I believe they are, as Capitalism structurally enforces inequality which inevitably leads to these things.
> Capitalism structurally enforces inequality which inevitably leads to these things
That's of course nonsense. It's human nature that enforces inequality, which doesn't necessarily lead to crime and violence either because again - human nature does.
Every social animal displays hierarchical structures, that's just biology. I don't know why so many people hold the belief that humans are special somehow and above biology.
Every economical, political, and social system will result in some form of inequality, if only because education, training, and skill need to be rewarded unless of course, you are willing to trade fairness for equality.
Finally, crime and violence aren't the result of (economical) inequality. They are correlated, sure, but crime isn't limited to property crimes and most of the other crimes don't need inequality.
A crime after all is nothing more than an action, which is defined as being against the law. You can in principle get rid of all crime by abolishing the law...
It's not nonsense at all, and nothing you wrote contradicts what I said. You can blame any human activity on "human nature". At one time human nature gave us the slave trade, but we still made slavery illegal. Calling it "human nature" doesn't mean there's nothing we can do about it.
When I say "structurally enforces", I mean that it amplifies the natural urge to have more, or do better, than someone else.
For example, we might say that someone with $100,000 is fairly comfortable. And perhaps someone who's more ambitious might have 10x their wealth. Or, let's be more generous: let's say 100x or even 1000x. That last would give you someone at $100,000,000 which most folk would agree is pretty wealthy.
Bit it's a bit much when you end up with someone who has 10,000,000x the comfortable persons wealth. That's not human nature: that's a structure set up to funnel the wealth that ordinary people have created, to a tiny number of individuals. And I see that as a problem even if you don't.
> Poverty, crime, violence.
Anybody want to tell him?