With communism and socialism people literally starve to death en masse, it happens very consistently. With capitalism there is enough food for everyone. That does not happen because of us wanting to understand the world we live in. It is because there is a profit motive to produce as much food as efficiently as possible. Neither of you answered my question about the Pilgrims.
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And that's exactly why it's such a fake system. We produce enough food to feed 12 billion people, and still there's widespread hunger. The average city has more empty buildings than homeless people. Capitalism doesn't provide according to need, it only provides what makes profits. And for profits to be made, we manufacture scarcity; so even with enough food to feed 12 billion people, hunger MUST exist. Even with enough houses, homelessness MUST exist. And even with the ability to provide jobs for everyone that wants to work, for example by moving to a 4 hour work week, joblessness MUST exist. Capitalism requires poverty as an incentive and a threat, for people to accept low wage jobs with abysmal worker protection.