Because other market-based approaches have successfully combated that as well, right?

I don't support market-based approaches. I'm not a market socialist.

This is my compass result which im kinda glad it turned out that way because it lends validity to what i say. I am right leaning. I agree with many important conservative viewpoints, but at the same time I do not turn a blind eye to hypocrisies from either party. I also do not act on many of my beliefs. I.e, I do not support gay marriage, but I would not vote for legislation obstructing them. I think a good title for me would be conservative skeptic.

Well, my results for The Political Compass are here. According to it, I'm halfway to the left, and quite far down toward libertarian. Sounds about right to me. I'm not sure I can elaborate much more though, since the question is extremely broad.

Same. I don't know what "numbered world" Venezuela is on, but first world problems are so completely different to what I worry(ied?) about back there. It feels like a whole new planet. Then again, I look at people individually and I feel like we aren't so different... Weird life.

On an unrelated note, remember when you posted on my wall one or two years ago about it being Maduro's last year as president? Sigh... It's amazing no one has given him the JFK (although once a lady tried it with a mango ), but I feel he won't make it past 2018 as president, though 2017 still has a long way to go. Which freaking blows, since he would be leaving with just 1 more year to go.

try telling that to many Americans today.

They think they either have to be 100% right/left/whatever. Just look at Buzzfeed, Paul Joseph Watson, Mark Dice, Katie Hopkins, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laci Green, Feminist Frequency...

Jesus christ, why are people so stupid?

If I'm picking a side I'm extremely Liberal, but I also believe political parties are what bind people to never stray from others beliefs. Luckily I fall in line with most liberal thinking's, but I don't go overboard like some liberals do. I also believe in Social Democracy(Feel the Bern my dudes)

It's hard to say for sure right now as I feel I've been changing politically recently, at least insofar as attempting to open myself to more perspectives. I'd say my natural inclinations are fairly socio-economically liberal, I don't fear government institutions so much as I feel they often need to improve or change dramatically to work better for the will of the people, I often sympathize with immigrants, having played their role in the past (and technically right now, although an American living in Canada isn't some terrible plight), celebrated the legalization of gay marriage, have respect and appreciation for the natural world, etc. I believe strongly in the power of science and logic over superstition, and think that while it's impossible to claim that race is purely a social construct (it's the product of populations being physically isolated from each other, even if it's only skin-deep), culture, family, tradition, nationality and religion reveal far more about our differences and similarities than the blanket term "race," and focusing on it as some all-important definer of the self is shallow and meaningless.

That being said, I do truly feel like I fall more in the center than I ever thought. These days everyone's widening the political divide, and I often find myself in intellectual battles with my political peers as I try to humanize and rationalize the other side. I try very hard to look at issues from multiple perspectives, avoid labels, see trends and changes instead of static differences, respect free will, and distance political disagreements from emotion. It's been healthy to study ideas from perspectives that don't aline with my own. This probably comes from being a Unitarian Universalist and transcendentalist at heart, and holding strong to the values of personal individual worth.

There will always be certain things I have a strong moral leaning on, and I don't think it's wise to change strongly-held views just because it's unpopular. But I think it's important to always respect your political adversaries and evaluate everything from all sides.

I feel a lot of U.S. colleges and their politics are heavily centered towards "social justice". I mean... What the heck does that even mean?

People at Austin were at one point protesting about Texas's "strict sexual expression laws", I once heard a few students arguing that people not only should love anyone they want but the next step is as many people as they want, then there is the bathroom gender debates, "microaggressions", and some really, really first world stuff. I even feel that those things even take precedence towards some more reasonable social issues like religious tolerance, immigration and refugees. Maybe cause it's easier.

Maduro... Honestly he might just be the worst ruler ever. Hopefully he loses power soon and he gets put in the padded cell where he belongs, and Cabello and Rodriguez on jail and the Venezuelan people finally have some peace.

Ecuador is facing elections this weekend, very tight elections to elect Correa's (Venezuela's closes ally) successor or a right wing leader. I have my fingers crossed.

The OECD Nations got to where they are on the back of Capitalism, which gives them significant capacity to assist other nations in need. And they do, billions are spent, farms are built, education is taught, food is donated.
Most capitalist OECD nations produce more food than they consume, where historically other approaches,  have not.

If you take a look at countries with Socialist systems like Zimbabwe, Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea... Their track record of reliably feeding their people is tenious at best.
Even China had long periods where food was relatively scarce, thanks to China introducing Capitalist ideas that's rapidly changing.

So is Capitalism the devil? History says no.