| Dark_Lord_2008 said: A Charles Dickens novel shows us what it was like to be in the shoes of the working class or poor people during the Victorian era, living under an unrepresentative Capitalist system where only male land owners had the right to vote. Business owners self interest and greed are the motivating factors behind their endless pursuit of more wealth at any cost. Capitalism is good if you are rich but ordinary if you are poor and live under a Capitalist system. |
And what was it like 100 years prior to Dickens living in the same country under repressive economic policies, many of which similar to that of socialism? Was it a paradise? What was it like to live in Soviet Russia, Communist China, or today in Venezuela and Cuba? Were the poor better off? The poor were in destitution because of scarcity, not because of capitalism. Capitalism was working with a precendence of impovershment since the start of civilization, and quite it frankly did very well to improve the standards of living of all persons in the world, effectively reducing worldwide destitution from 80% to 20% (today) even in its most limited form.
