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by soperj 109 days ago
> free-market capitalism and multiparty democracy has created an unprecedented era of prosperity

can you prove that it's free-market capitalism and multiparty democracy? because i see this opinion espoused a lot online.

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Can you prove it's not? At this point if anyone wants to propose an alternative then the burden of proof is on them. So far everything else that we've tried has failed disastrously.
How could everything else have failed?

You entrench yourself and don't want to move when you need to

Fortunately we don't need to move.
I'm not making a judgement either way. You're saying that it's capitalism and multiparty democracy(i would question whether there's a difference between both the parties in the US, does it even count as multiparty?). China's the second largest economy in the world and there's no multi party democracy there.