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socialism lesson
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Capitalism is LITERALLY forcing other people to give away all of their belongings.
In capitalism, you just don't have any remaining belongings to give away.
can you explain this some? im not very knowledgeable about economic systems
I'm guessing they mean, that under capitalism, most of your basic needs require money to access, so if you run out of money you have to sell your belongings in order to survive.
The goal of capitalism is to use exploitative systems so that you gain others' money and they don't gain yours.
The whole idea of investment is that you hire people to work for you and then they don't get the full value of the work they do, and it goes to you. That's how your employer makes money.
Same for landlords and basically all of the wealthy people in capitalism.
And when you aren't making enough money, you start making things so expensive that they can't afford homes, healthcare, food, and other necessities, like what's happening now.
There's no need for homelessness or poverty to exist. Those things are choices made by the wealthy.
You're better off reading wikipedia than getting economics advice from someone who thinks capitalism involves the abolition of private property.
In no way does capitalism require people to give away all of their belongings. If there is one core tenet of capitalism, it is private property.
-and the property that becomes one person's private property comes from...?
(I know it might take a capitalism-supporter a minute. It's okay.)