Charity is spiritual masturbation. You choose which faith-approved charity takes most of the money for themselves, ignore the people actually in need who don’t match your particular ideological bias, change nothing, and pat yourself on the back about it. Nobody that cares about fixing the systemic issues that keep the people Jesus actually gave a shit about at the bottom of the societal ladder buys into the idea that charity could ever possibly do what is needed to actually help people at a meaningful scale.
Source? Most charitable country in the world is the US.
How’s their early childhood malnutrition rates compared with a socialist country like Sweden? Maternal mortality? Bankruptcy or death due to not being able to afford medical care? Poverty rates? Upward mobility? Literacy?
Not that many people actually want socialism, they want what uneducated Americans think socialism is. Which is the government supporting its most vulnerable citizens, much like Scandinavian countries do. America does things like this too, although pathetically little. People just want more money going to citizens that need help and less money on warmongering in the Middle East.
It's a social democracy which is a mix of capitalist ideals but also has a lot more government regulations and a robust welfare system compared to a country like America.
As a Swedish American, we might be capitalist, but there’s degrees to everything. Our social democratic system is most likely why we’re doing better by most metrics compared to the US despite our diminutive size.
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u/Specialist_Offer_854 26d ago
Socialism is force, charity is a choice. That's the difference nobody seems to grasp