danasider on 22 October 2018
| fleischr said: Glad to know markets are still helping raise health and living standards and eliminating poverty. Capitalism FTW. |
To be fair, straight capitalism in the US has caused this country's richest class to grow and its middle class to shrink. If this number (in the OP) means anything (and it sounds like it is not very representative of the individual economies), it grew because of a communist country with a capitalist outlook: China.
A mix is probably best: socialism with capitalism for instance. Straight capitalism has led to a country with the most billionaires and a middle class that's been shrinking for 30 plus years while the lower class grows daily.
