Better for all, Capitalism or Socialism?

[SamuelRSmith]

@Mafoo The UK has a huge problem with "dead" towns. Particularly in Western England and Wales.

These towns were built based around a local mine, after a while the mines became too expensive to operate, and so people started buying coal, etc, from other countries.

Suddenly a town's main source of income is gone, and lot's of people lost their jobs. As a result of that shops could no longer operate at large, so they had to downsize and close.

I don't know whether NintendoMan comes from one of these places, but from some of his statements, I think it might be a good guess.

At the end of the day, capitalism got people to move miles away from big cities and other "developed" areas (we're talking 1800s, here) to places where the only sustainable source of income was mining. Capitalism then decided that these mines were too expensive to operate, and so all these people have been suffering since.

So, yes, people on minimum wage would live a better life, but you can't be on minimum wage if you don't have a job.