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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism Kills Nearly 1 Million Americans Per Year [View all]Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)180. We need a vaccine against the spread of disinformation.
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The Nordic model, regulated capitalism with robust benefits for citizens such as universal...
brush
Jan 2023
#15
It's not facts, it's taking one raw number, out of thousands of comparative measures, and falsely
Celerity
Jan 2023
#123
The darkness related suicide rate has been vastly reduced via vitamin supplements & sunlamps/tanning
Celerity
Jan 2023
#142
Very glad to hear that the Vits & sunlamps etc have helped! And TY for these beautiful🧡photos!
electric_blue68
Jan 2023
#210
US capitalism, on balance, is vastly under-regulated and more rapacious than Nordic capitalism
Celerity
Jan 2023
#193
Police killings are not statistically very large in a country of 320 million
EX500rider
Jan 2023
#131
You forget the basic fact that the older the demographic skew, the higher the death rate. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#201
I became impressed w the Nordic model as I found out more about it around 35 yrs ago
electric_blue68
Jan 2023
#140
This rebranding of liberal Democratic policies as democratic socialism, but that democratic
betsuni
Jan 2023
#199
Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance are not examples of "socialism"
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#38
When ideologies on the extremes have no real accomplishments of their own--aside from
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#188
No, that's just traditional markets that have been around for thousands of years
Farmer-Rick
Jan 2023
#181
Not so simple & NOT binary / either-or. Socialistic-capitalism is better distribution of wealth
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#57
Socialism isn't about better distribution of resources. That is wholly inaccurate.
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#67
State-ownership of production is premised on better distribution of resources, but rarely efficient
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#70
That's my point: that it never works out that way. Modern liberalism is socialistic-capitalism
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#75
You are dead wrong. All these countries have advanced capitalist economies.
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#41
What facts do you need to be convinced that the Nordic countries all have advanced capitalist
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#51
Norway and Finland are socio-capitalist. Blended capitalism. Venezuela is command-and-control
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#59
The US has a far higher population and people in those US areas live better than the poor in
JI7
Jan 2023
#159
lol, if poor people lived better in Venezuela than in the US you would have people going to
JI7
Jan 2023
#161
There is not too much capitalism; there is not enough socialism: basic income, healthcare, shelter.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2023
#54
As extreme poverty declines worldwide with the spread of capitalism I'd say it does not
EX500rider
Jan 2023
#133
Manley's PNP government did take over a large chunk of the means of production.
Celerity
Jan 2023
#37
The utility companies were run by the government as was JOS (the urban bus company)
malaise
Jan 2023
#97
You are entirely correct to push back on the false conflation of Social Democracy
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#43
The policies and programmes they advocate for are not socialist, and those policies and
Celerity
Jan 2023
#78
Correct. Social Democracies have liberal political and economic values.
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#64
Move beyond the isms. Return to small, laterally-construct community groups who have real
Magoo48
Jan 2023
#86
The previous poster is not incorrect, and your meme does nothing to make a point to the contrary.
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#53
capitalist economic systems definitely kill fewer people in the developed world than
anarch
Jan 2023
#103
Yep. We need to start calling the problems associated with this system "POLICY FAILURES"
ck4829
Jan 2023
#32
Agreed, if not THE worst problems, definitely near the top. We have so many problems today,
Ziggysmom
Jan 2023
#209
Somebody (The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma) made lots and lots of money though
ck4829
Jan 2023
#46
I can see this is a pointless conversation, but isn't Vietnam a communist country?
anarch
Jan 2023
#139
Yes, I'm sure corporations will figure out a way to capitalize off of people's misery.
jalan48
Jan 2023
#100
Sorry, not sorry, it's SOCIALISM and corporations have been using it for years
RANDYWILDMAN
Jan 2023
#93
In the words of George Santos, Invisible People has "embellished" the conclusions of the study.
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2023
#137
This is Both Sides Corrupt Myth: "Many politicians who could directly influence change are getting
betsuni
Jan 2023
#148
The official US poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty.
Celerity
Jan 2023
#215
Your calling 40 plus million Americans living in poverty 'little select numbers' says a lot.
Celerity
Jan 2023
#218
Strawman? I'm one who's consistently posited since I joined DU that the Nordics are NOT socialist
Celerity
Jan 2023
#220
Claiming that those who self-describe as socialists and/or democratic socialists are confused about
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#221
False frame of what I said AND also ignores the evidence I have presented a multitude of times
Celerity
Jan 2023
#222
Yeah I get the feeling many American's really don't know what poverty is like in the 3erd World
EX500rider
Jan 2023
#230
