[nosefurhairdo]

Capitalism is the engine that has lifted more humans out of poverty than any other. Countries which have embraced that fact have been better places to live than others. Cost/benefit analysis of medical treatment for the terminally ill does not suggest capitalism is "destructive".

[hypeatei]

Ah yes, the engine that brought you a health insurance industry which treats humans as numbers on a spreadsheet. One where people don't seek medical treatment because the threat of being put into financial peril is too big. This really is a better place to live, I guess.

[zrn900]

> Capitalism is the engine that has lifted more humans out of poverty than any other. Countries which have embraced that fact have been better places to live than others

Capitalism didn't lift anyone out of sh*t. In its heyday people were living and dying in industrial slums at a ripe old age of 40. Only after the USSR won Ww2 instead of 'crumbling down like a house of cards' how the capitalist press was expecting before the war that the sociopaths in the West had to give concessions to their people to compete with the Eastern Bloc so that the people wouldn't overthrow them.

When the USSR dissolved, they declared 'We won', and they started taking back all of those concessions. As a result, there are countries where people are killed if they cant pay for healthcare now.

> Cost/benefit analysis of medical treatment for the terminally ill does not suggest capitalism is "destructive"

It does.