cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1764arrow-down157cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1707arrow-down1imageBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netcm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down8·4 months agoQuick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·4 months agoThere’s nothing capitalist about American healthcare. If we had a free market I’d be able to buy my antidepressants ($15/mo) without seeing a doctor ($120).
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoIt sounds like you’re describing a free market, not capitalism.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·4 months agoCrippling medical debt.
minus-squarelewdian69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·4 months agoCrippling student debt
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down11·4 months agoBy “crippling” here you mean unable to participate in the market. That’s the thing that’s crippled when debt affects a person’s life. A socialist had no access to the market anyway. They’re born into that crippled state.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoRaises below inflation
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down10·4 months agoLeading to lack of material resources? Here’s some socialists feeling the effects of centrally-controlled economic distributuon:
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-24 months ago“It’s socialism when the government does things”
Quick! Name a negative life experience capitalists experience that socialists don’t.
American healthcare?
There’s nothing capitalist about American healthcare. If we had a free market I’d be able to buy my antidepressants ($15/mo) without seeing a doctor ($120).
It sounds like you’re describing a free market, not capitalism.
Crippling medical debt.
Crippling student debt
By “crippling” here you mean unable to participate in the market. That’s the thing that’s crippled when debt affects a person’s life.
A socialist had no access to the market anyway. They’re born into that crippled state.
Raises below inflation
Leading to lack of material resources?
Here’s some socialists feeling the effects of centrally-controlled economic distributuon:
“It’s socialism when the government does things”