Capitalism creates poverty

Communists collect Welfare Checks in the USSA

This is a simple lie. Ask any capitalist, they will tell you that their life under capitalism is prosperous

Capitalists are people who own capital. Capitalism only benefits capital owners

And anyone can obtain capital. (I'm speaking of what I know, so just about the US here...)

So everyone can prosper. If they want to.

If they want to work hard enough to better their situation.

As someone from Scotland,it’s the same thing over here.

Actually capitalism was made to benefit 1% of people at the expense of 99%. That's how it was designed.

Bullshit, as usual.

What is your definition of “capital”?

Income you get off private property

Nope

Yes, actually. Profit gotten from capital owned. Hence the name.

Communism is what gave you weekends

No

What do you mean no

It a simple concept. Even you should understand it.

Ya think? Problem is Too many participation awards corrupted communist's thinking process

Yes. You should try it sometime.

LOL - I did (I think)

My bad! I thought I was replying to the rag doll cat

LOL - No problem- Even though I'm dead, I promise not to vote democrat!

Communists do not understand simple concepts.

Actually,overpopulation does and it happens everywhere.

We could feed everyone on earth with the food we have. Why don't we do it

Cause of limited food,idiot. And cause,shockingly,we don’t have everything!

I said we have enough food to feed everyone. The problem is people are taking too much

Just cause you say something doesn’t mean it’s true. Read the news. Please.

No it doesn't.

Of course capitalism doesn't solve poverty.

When I was dirt poor, there was still capitalism. It was out there doing its thing while I did (well, didn't...) do mine. For some bizarre reason, it didn't solve my poverty.

Then it dawned on me. And I solved it. (using capitalism)

Capitalism doesn't solve poverty, people do.

There is plenty to go around in terms of individuals accumulating wealth. The People who are doing well don't do better when others are doing poorly. That would be crazy. The better everyone does, well... the better we all do.

You can't say that about any other economic system.

Capitalism + freedom = the greatest, most prosperous country that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other, that the world has ever known

Communism is a beautiful system. It goes like this. You need something? Well it's easy to get. You get burned out after a long day of helping others? Take a rest with no financial issues. Not interested in your job anymore? You can just stop. No financial risk of anything.

No, it doesn't. At all.

I love communism for all those reasons

That's not Communism, that's getting spoiled by an upper middle class or higher family out in the suburbs.

It is communism. Communism is collective ownership of resources and no economic hoerarchies

Collective ownership where everyone is an equal does not mean anyone just gets to take off after lunch to go golfing on a whim. That's an indulgence only a Capitalist boss takes.

In Communism - REAL Communism - everyone in the collective works equally hard, and they will work hard. And the only way you can get people to be truly dedicated to doing so is on a small voluntary scale, like in a Kibbutz or Jewish communal villages out in rural Argentina. It just doesn't work on a massive scale like a country. Selfish autocratic types always find a way to hijack the system, and before you know it you have a fiefdom. In a society like that, the only incentive is not getting in trouble, so people end up doing the minimum they can get away with. There's no reason to strive, and thus innovation dies and society sputters and rots.

That's why we don't believe in countries

*hierarchies

That is crazy talk! Communism doesn’t work that way.

That's the literal definition of communism

The literal definition of Communism is communal decisions by the community.
It's not a pantry where you go pick off the shelf what you need, take the day off, and kick back and watch TV if you feel like it.
If the community decides you and the rest of the town are going to spend the next three months straight building a dam with a trowel and a bucket, then you do it.

Well you are part of the community so you can say that you'd rather not do that

You wouldn't be given a choice. And you could choose to go along, and 'live', or not go along, and go to a 're-education' (slave labor) camp like they have in China. Or did no one ever tell you about those?

Chin is capitalist. You're the one who needs a re education camp.

Tiananmem Square Massacre, dear. Look it up and find out why there were protests.

No

Describe communism in a non-narrow-minded way

"From each according to his ability, to each according to their needs".

Communism takes from those who produce more, and gives to those who produce less. Common human behavior has shown that when everyone is rewarded the same regardless of effort, the effect will be for everyone to do as little as possible. There is no incentive to work harder without the reward of your extra effort. This happened to the colony in Virginia under the1609 charter. The colonists starved. What would YOU have to offer, in such a system, if your skills were insufficient and/or unneeded and the resources were insufficient?

"Communism takes from those who produce more, and gives to those who produce less."

That's capitalism where all the money is given to the owner rather than to the worker

Workers don't work for free, silly. If it isn't voluntary, it's called slavery. Why not read the rest of the post instead of stopping in the middle. It would help your reading comprehension.

It's not voluntary because you have to work or you starve. And having someone work for you and making money off that work is slavery no matter how much the slave is paid

Work is a fact of life no matter what economic system you live under, and in every system there are people on the top, and people on the bottom, and all the ones in between. If you didn't work in a communist system, little comrade, you wouldn't eat. Communism is supposed to be for the WORKERS not lazy little children who spout some sugar-coated propaganda on internet forums.

Well I would work and there are no economic hierarchies in communism

Sure pumpkin, sure.

Communism + freedom = love and harmony

Stop! You truly do not know what you are talking about, at all.

Communism and freedom are on the exact opposite sides of the spectrum, kiddo

The f**k