Are you arguing in bad faith or do you legitimately not realise wealth means almost nothing in a socialist society?
Do I need to remind you about the Soviet Union and Maoist China?
Yes, as evidenced by Comcast’s fuckers, Amazon screwing their workers over and six conglomerates owning a majority of companies in Europe, as well as the widening rich-poor gap, everybody’s so willing to improve on the system.
And yet it can still improve. You may as well say Medieval/Dark age Europe was hopeless with how barbaric it was, and yet it improved.
Just because bad things are happening involving capitalism right now doesn’t mean it can’t improve. After all, Why abandon something good when it can be fixed? Capitalism has lifted many people out of poverty and the average American eats better than a king. Out of all other systems, Capitalism has done the best so far. Of course it isn’t perfect, but it can still be improved none the less.
Yeah, it’s not like people in the US can deny healthcare for any reason either; you’d have to ask Tyra Hunter about that one.
Either way, Giving the government power over our healthcare would give them too much leverage over us. If you were to ban Healthcare Monopolies and have many healthcare companies, if one company where to deny you it you could always find a better company with better healthcare.
I want to ask if “Higher taxes for richer people and lower taxes and more subsidies for poorer people” is an alien concept to you.
Do you understand what happens when you tax the rich too much though? They simply leave to a country that won’t tax them too much. You know that’s called when it happens to a country? It’s called a ““Brain Drain[](
https://www.thoughtco.com/brain-drain-1435769)
“Brain drain refers to the emigration (out-migration) of knowledgeable, well-educated, and skilled professionals from their home country to another country. This can take place because of several factors. The most obvious is the availability of better job opportunities in the new country. Other factors that can cause brain drain include: war or conflict, health risks, and political instability.” Or is the case of socialist Elements, Too Harsh Taxes
“The country that experiences brain drain suffers a loss. In LDCs, this phenomenon is much more common and the loss is much more substantial. LDCs generally do not have the ability to support growing industry and the need for better research facilities, career advancement, and salary increases. There is an economic loss in the possible capital that the professionals may have been able to bring in, a loss in advancement and development when all of the educated individuals use their knowledge to benefit a country other than their own, and a loss of education when educated individuals leave without assisting in the education of the next generation.
There is also a loss that occurs in MDCs, but this loss is less substantial because MDCs generally see an emigration of these educated professionals as well as an immigration of other educated professionals.”
And if Harsh Taxes on the rich would be implemented, We certainly wouldn’t be encouraging many educated professionals to come to our country. I’d suggest checking out the link, it has good info.
While I don’t really like socialism whatsoever, I’ll stay open-minded. Maybe some elements of socialism can work, maybe not, We’ll have to see.
