bouzane said:
HappySqurriel said:
bouzane said:
SamuelRSmith said:
bouzane said:
You will never convince me that Capitalism works, never. |
I suppose all those videogames you play were the result of some bureacrat barking orders.
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What kind of rebutal is that? That's a terrible guage for quality of life. I live in an area that has decaying infrastructure, lousy education and non-existant health care while I can drive a couple blocks and look at all the millionaires' homes. This system is inherintly flawed, like all systems sadly.
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As SamuelRSmith has already pointed out, here in Canada infastructure, education and health-care are government dominated ...
Compare and contrast the cost, quality and availability of dental care, vision care, cosmetic surgery and chiropractic to the public health-care system in Canada and you will see a clear distinction between capitalism and socialism. The privately funded and privately delivered health-care services are among the highest quality available in the world and are (relatively) affordable to the vast majority of people within the country, while the publicly funded and delivered health-care is relatively low quality and there is little to no availability.
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Tell that to my dead relatives. I had an uncle die waiting for his doctor to find his file. I have a neighbor who died waiting for routine surgery. I don't want to get into all of my siblings who never made it because the health care in Newfoundland is disgustingly inadequate. We have a saying in my community, you go to the hospital to die, I'm not joking. All the while we pander to the super-wealthy. I don't know a millionaire that hasn't figured out a way around paying taxes. It really gets to me when the government doesn't close these loopholes or raise their taxes. All the while I watch my parents struggle, my father works at that damn hospital and we can not afford home care for my mother. Maybe if we were on welfare the government would pay for home care and actually take care of us. If my derision of Capitalism is misplaced then it doesn't change the fact that life is horrible where I live. Don't kid yourselves, it's not lovely everywhere in Canada. Top that with laughably inadequate education and everything from water that needs to be boiled to "roads" that have potholes and cracks that have become craters and trenches. Mentioning infrastructure, at least the lights stay on now without constant brown-outs. The unemployment is over 15% and that doesn't factor in people who have given up on finding suitable, gainful employment. My mother was shot at by a cop for breaking curfew, a mentally disturbed individual was shot dead for threatening himself with a butter knife, I've got an uncle who's doing everything in his power to defend himself from constant police harassment. A few weeks ago we had people joyride in a haulage truck, they tore up lawns and smashed cars and when called, the police didn't respond. They only took action after the next incident in which a police officer's private, civilian vehicle was hit. Maybe if they were selling a small amount of pot the cops would have done something the first time. Every person I have ever known to launch a justified lawsuit has had to pay many thousands of dollars just to take it to court. Then it always drags on for so many years that they can not finish fighting the case and the company always wins. The one case in which a dear friend of my parents' actually wins and they are intimidated by the company that they sued for criminal negligence. Guess what, they're still waiting for payment (which they will never see). Every aspect of this society is broken, there is nothing here for the average worker. Per capita, we are the most oil wealthy people on the face of the Earth and yet life here is terrible for the vast majority. I continue to commit crime not for the money, but because of what it does to our worthless government. Canada, Capitalism, Corporatism, the wealthy elite, they're all to blame in a way. I can not discuss what I would do if I could get my hands on them for it would certainly get me perma-banned from this site. Finally, just because Communist nations are still recovering from the decades of war and isolation that we subjected them to doesn't mean that their system is inherintly more flawed then our own. Sorry for the rant, seriously, I'm just in a bad mood and needed to vent. It's mostly just the pathetic medical treatment and police harassment that my family has had to deal with recently but life as a whole here is not what it should be.
TL/DR
The quality of live where I live is not as good as you would think. We have no reason to be satisfied with what we have just because others have it worse. The level of inequality in this region is appalling and Capitalism just doesn't work for the vast majority.
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