[nickpp]

The difference is you: you have choices, and they are your choices.

Under communism you'd just get told what to do, by others.

In capitalism, if the system is not providing you opportunities, you can go out and attempt to make your own opportunity. It's damn hard, near impossible, but nobody is stopping you try. Under communism, it was illegal and they would shoot you for it.

[LatteLazy]

Not really though. My choice is to do what others say or go starve on the street. That's the exact same choice communism offered. Capitalism only actually offers choices when there is a lot of opportunity. But we have drained the opportunity out of the current system.

I don't think people actually really care about communism vs capitalism. They want opportunity. When communism provided that, it did great. When it stopped it fell (after a few shitty decades). Now capitalism has stopped actually giving people actual opportunities...