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by newswasboring 1534 days ago
> Capitalism is the best system ever invented to get money into the hands of people.

I would like some citation for this one. Pretty large claim. For example China brought out 2/3rds of their population from poverty to middle class, pretty large number. Now there can be a debate on whether Chinese system is communism or not, but it definitely is not capitalism the way people in US like to define it.

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>I would like some citation for this one. Pretty large claim. For example China brought out 2/3rds of their population from poverty to middle class, pretty large number.

Yes... Thanks to capitalism. Communismn killed tens of millions in China when they attempted to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.

>Now there can be a debate on whether Chinese system is communism or not,

There is no debate. There are billionaire capitalists in China.

>but it definitely is not capitalism the way people in US like to define it.

It is 100% the way people in the US define capitalism. Sure it has it's Chinese spin, but it is undoubtedly capitalism.