[_uxvx]

Or maybe if people stop trying to build socialism they could live much better? I for sure know that all the countries that attempted to "get rid of the billionaires", "stop the corrupt capitalism", "put the power to the people" lived vastly worse than people in the capitalist world and especially USA. Or maybe there is another reason that the emigration is ALWAYS in the direction of the capitalist countries, and the more capitalist the country is and them more billionaires it has, more people try to go there. If that was not the case Trump wouldn't have wanted to deport people, they would have gone themselves.

[threeseed]

It's always strange to me people arguing against income equality.

Even though we have plenty of evidence and research that it makes society better for everyone.

And there is zero evidence that the more billionaires a country has the better it is.

[_uxvx]

there is ZERO evidence on that! we have plenty of evidence of the opposite - you can immediately go and live in a country with equality and no billionaires - Cuba, for example, but no - you prefer to stay in the USA and downvote me - who lived through the socialism and saw what absolute HELL is when people like you are in charge.

[DavidPiper]

I'm not sure what the GP's post was, but I'm genuinely curious. I have no experience of socialist countries, but I have several friends and colleagues who have emigrated over the last decade or so.

1. Is income equality the primary driver of a country descending into social turmoil?

2. If not, is the USA so politically and socially similar to those countries in other ways that an income equality system - or a system that moves in that direction - would be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back?

I'm particularly interested in #2 as a non-American.

[QuercusMax]

The capitalist powers have used the CIA and other groups to ruthlessly interfere with socialist countries. There must be some reason they're afraid.

[_uxvx]

It is not their wealth and quality of life they were afraid of, I can assure you of that! Or you believe that KGB didn't interfere in the capitalist countries even more? But hey, I can show you even today, in EU, couple of cases of using chemical weapons against people by the FSB(KGB) and a few blown warehouses with weapons. Can you show me a murder or attempt murder by CIA in Cuba, North Korea, China that happened in the last, let's say not 5 years, but 30? Or maybe they interfered because socialist countries waged a war against capitalism as they openly admit? Or maybe you are caring their war now.