| ▲ | inigyou 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Even just capitalism with more regulation and safety nets (the ones most countries implement don't work very well) would suffice here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Brendinooo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>the ones most countries implement don't work very well I guess this is the basis of my critique: the author seems to be writing as though capitalism is robbing him of some ideal that would otherwise exist: invoking the so-called "Protestant work ethic" to describe a system that took over the world and made us all worse off. That doesn't feel right to me because I don't think previous economic systems did better at protecting the vulnerable. (But I'm not sure, that's why I framed my comment the way I did!) Most replies to me are framed more as either "do what Europe does" (but the author lives in Europe!) or "we haven't gotten there yet" - which...sure! We shouldn't accept the status quo. But that's a different argument. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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