Er...high rents and low wages are caused by state violence?

Forgive my skepticism, but I'd be curious to hear the logic behind that assertion.

I don't quite understand the purpose of these leading questions because successful revolutions so far have only happened in developing countries.

Many have tried and failed, the point of showing that even homeless have achieved billion dollars worth is to point out that what make the workers not entrepreneurs isn't the lack of money. There are a lot of well paid employees that prefer to work for someone for a "certainty" of revenue than to open their own business and take the risk.

You are a funny person. So please enlighten me on what society, animal or anything do socialism works as promised and when did you see humans in majority willing to work all for the same result independent of the work done... several independent trials of socialism have gone wrong due to the accommodation and exploration of laid back individuals.

OK. I will now take you up on your offer, show me examples of homeless people becoming billionaires so we can see exactly what the circumstances were.

https://exame.abril.com.br/pme/empresario-que-ja-dormiu-na-rua-hoje-fatura-r-4-bi/

And I'll give you even more

www.meusucesso.com

Almost all its case are based on people that came from nowhere to revenue multimillions.

The originator of the idea is a guy that not knowing how to speak English but selling it for some time (and having a good wage at the time) opened a school without any money using the "cheque especial" (that in Brazil cost about 14-30% interest per month) to finance the first 2 months of operation.

My point with these questions were to point out that capitalist countries have had longer democracies and better human rights than Socialist countries. In no way do I think that pure capitalism is a good thing. Governments need to have strict rules and regulation on what companies can do and also they have to support the poor and I do think governments should provide services for their citizens.

I am not fluent in Portuguese, so I only have limited understanding of what those articles say. But you say right there "having a good wage at the time", so wouldn't that mean that he needed money to finance it?

Right, this is why the Soviet Union managed to become one of the most powerful countries in the world in the span of a few decades, because people just sat back and relaxed. How people believe these myths about "laid back individuals" is beyond me. Will you also blame "socialism" when automation will inevitably wipe out millions of jobs and force people to live off a basic wage from the government?

It's not comparable since capitalism has been around for much longer and socialism has only existed so far in developing countries. The material conditions are different which is also why capitalism in a country like America functions differently in a country like Liberia even though they both operate under a capitalist mode of production.

Social democracy so far has been a compromise used to satisfy the thirst for revolution in Western countries and despite the flaws of the system, there has been some successes like better working conditions in developed nations, universal healthcare and education and so on. The issue is here, how long can this system survive as long as the contradictions of capitalism exist. Perhaps it will only be 5 years, or 10, or 50 or 100 who knows.

Socialism is less about being an ideology but the next step in development, just like capitalism over feudalism, according to historical materialism. Perhaps this is wrong and we'll live in a system that is controlled by an overseeing AI that completely changes the mode of development, we won't know for sure until it happens.

Nope, he didn't had any money to finance it (talking about the creator of mysucesso.com) he took an indirect loan on the bank. Like he took something like 10k USD that he would have to pay back the next month 12k USD for the principal and interest.

The other one, the homeless, didn't had any money at all.

There is another that started as a waitress on a road barbecue parlor. He and his brother (while living in poverty at their families house) saved up to 90% of their income for several months/years to rent their first space and start their barbecue who would become "Fogo de Chão".

There is also famous Silvio Santos who started as low middle class family, buying things from the wholesale and selling on the ferryboat and today is the owner of the second biggest TV in Brazil and several other business.

In fact it's possible that the rate of self made man turned billionarie isn't that much of than milionaries who turned off billionaires...

Want another sneak peek? There is one study showing that the average income from families that came as recent immigrants to be higher than americans... which show that even people that came without money and even understanding english were developing faster... this wikipedia have at least somewhat a way for you to start looking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

The biggest issue with socialism and communism is their fight to end inequality instead of poverty... Capitalism have fought poverty greatly while also increasing inequalities in some places.