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Kasz216 on 09 November 2009
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famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:

Yeah, i read that.

Really what I found shocking was that most people in the Ukraine now think the collapse of the USSR was a bad thing.

I guess because most of the people who didn't want to be part of the USSR were murdered way back when combined with the economic downturn.


I mean really what are we measuring here?  It's not so much what people feel about capitalism but what they feel about it right now. Ask the question 4-5 years earlier and i bet the poll practically flips.

 

I mean why is Germany at the bottom of the list?  Because it wasn't effected nearly as bad as the other nations polled.  Public opinion will swing back to normalcy with the economy.  Assuming the governments don't overregulate to the point of where it doesn't come back.

 

Well depending on the nation.  Places like Mexico and Spain will have high disatisfaction because they're countries are in general broken normally.  No offense to Spain, but it's unemployment numbers were insane before the crisis.

It seems pretty natural to me that people would start thinking more about fixing the roof or moving into a new house after the roof has collapsed rather than before. That being said, I'm not quite seeing the link between the impact of the crisis and distaste for capitalism that you claim to be seeing.

Despite Germany not being much effected, a staggering 70% or so of Germans seem to want more regulations. Meanwhile, the countries most content with pure capitalism (as if such a thing has ever existed) are amongst the most effected by the crisis. Pakistan has the shortest yellow + blue bar, despite almost being completely bankrupted by the crisis. The US comes in second, despite unemployment hitting levels not seen in fifty years.

So I'm not seeing a strong correlation between the impact of the crisis and people's opinion of capitalism. There's probably a link in terms of the change in negative opinions on capitalism, but you'd need a similar poll from a few years back to draw conclusions on that.

The US has hit hard times, but the majority of the people still hardly feel it.

Pakistan up until recently has been under the control of a dictator.

I don't think they wanna give the new guys too much regulatory power right away.

 

Don't you think this crisis was unavoiadable at some point?  It was all flow with no ebb with the economy with politians pushing harder and harder to get rid of any eb through numerous means.  That it caught back up with us one way or another is no surprise.