Capitalism - the Ultimate Religion

[Amethyst]

Giving all your money to everyone else means you also get a share of all of everyone else's money, so relationship to working at 80 is not clear. In any case, it would be a systemic problem only if you think your contribution was of greater value than your what you got back. Otherwise you'd be happy with the windfall.

I would rather earn my own money by working hard, then steal other people's hard earned money.

I honestly had no idea schools were brainwashing kids into liking communism until I came to this site. What on Earth are they teaching people these days?

The soviet bloc communist states do in fact Give you back far more then the average share of money and perks if your skills and services are highly value, such as if you are a missile engineer, nuclear physicist, or olympic gymnast. In that case your pay can be 100 times average national salary and your perks are many, like cars, chauffeur, gated community living, subsidized luxury goods, even shopping trips abroad, etc.

This doesn't make it right.

Retirement benefits are usually excellent relative to general standard of living for most. You are not expected to work at 80. Communism mostly were not deficient in providing good social services relative to available standard of living, nor was it deficient in rewarding it's subjects for skills and services it value.

And yet European countries' economies are failing because they cannot provide that standard of living without going bankrupt.

Communists think disagreeing with them is a crime. This is hardly unique to communists. Religious and moral conservatives think disagreeing with them ought to be a crime.

I don't think disagreement should be a crime. However, I am partial to my American freedoms, and I don't want anyone to take them away. If they do, I will move to whatever country is left that allows me to be free.

I left Christianity because it did not allow me to be a free person. I will likewise leave America if it ceases to allow me to be a free person. I value my freedom.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I live in Portugal and about half of europe(or the whole thing) follows socialism, which i think it's the middle ground between capitalism and communism

Ah, I see. What on earth can one say to that?

[theVOID]

New Zealand is a socially progressive yet right wing country. I guess most of that is because we went from a socialist nation way back when and changed into a much more capitalist society, though we kept all of the social policies that remains aligned with our values, such as free roads, healthcare and education.

The only problem is the government here is getting more and more authoritarian, and that will likely lead me to vote for the Labor party at the next election.