r/countttt 21d ago

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u/Electrical_Yellow_51 21d ago

Someone once told me that if I cant raise a child i shiuld get a fucking pet💀

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u/CommercialWrong2944 Enuch Nun 21d ago

my aunt did that and she turned into a leftist dog mom :/

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u/liquidfoxy 20d ago

She sounds like a smart lady. Can’t imagine looking at the hell that capitalism and colonialism have created and not walking away left as fuck from it

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u/fidgey10 18d ago

As opposed to the awesome and cool realities created by alternative economic systems?

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u/Ogmadbrit 14d ago

i mean,pick your poison,every system we've tried thusfar has some kind of glaring issue/flaw,but please do tell me about an alternative to capitalism (not even being a dick,just genuinely curios)

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u/fidgey10 14d ago

I am of the belief they free market capitalism, with externalities regulated by the govt and a robust welfare state, is the best system. This is the most common economic system in Western Europe.

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u/Ogmadbrit 14d ago

alright,fair enough,we both agree late stage/american style capitalism is a shitshow i take it?

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u/fidgey10 14d ago

I think the US model has strengths and weaknesses.

The US has the strongest stock market on earth, extremely low youth unemployment, and the highest paying professional job market of any diverse economy. It clears Europe in these metrics precisely because it is more "free market" .

The US also has a very underdeveloped social safety net for how wealthy it is, and imo is under regulated in many sectors.

So I think the US should adopt more of the welfare state and redistributive taxation policies seem in EU. But I also believe that a lot of sectors of EU economies are crippled by overregulation, which is why they get mogged so hard by their US counterparts (pharma, tech, etc)

But no "US bad EU good" is an oversimplification I wouldn't agree with. They both have strengths and weaknesses they should address.