[0x3444ac53]

Capitalism also has a fairy tail to sell it's people tho?

[dekhn]

Of course. All successful large-scale political movements have underlying narratives that only loosely correlate with reality.

[drcongo]

Very much. It's basically: look at all these lovely billionaires, one day you'll be one of them too!

[nailer]

Yes, when countries move from communism to capitalism, poverty, infant mortality, unemployment and every other bad metric goes down.