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Carolannie

@Janne_O @graywolf @yogthos @jimray The EU is much more socialistic than the US, with a much more constrained capitalism. So the choice isn't capitalism vs "communism a la Pol Pot". It easily could be between pretty unconstrained capitalism such as we experience in the US or constrained and regulated capitalism with a good social structure. The note about Russian threats isn't relevant to this

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Janne Ojaniemi

@carolannie @graywolf @yogthos @jimray Iā€™m in Europe, Finland to be exact. And what you are calling socialism is just capitalism with social services. Private business is still very much the cornerstone of the economy and society as a whole.

Johan | PD1JMB

@Janne_O @carolannie @graywolf @yogthos @jimray

Pretty big strikes at the moment right? And a right-wing government that doesn't like that šŸ˜ˆ

Matthias Aulbach

@Janne_O @carolannie @graywolf @yogthos @jimray This!
Just because the European kind of capitalism is somewhat socially fairer doesn't make it less hungry for resources. On the flipside, the Soviet Union wasn't exactly an environmental utopia, either, and neither is China.
So I guess we need something new altogether

DecaturNature

@carolannie @Janne_O @graywolf @yogthos @jimray Europe has often been more aggressively capitalist than the US. For instance, they extended copyright before we did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh

Carolannie

@DecaturNature @Janne_O @graywolf @yogthos @jimray ? this is about social policy writ large, not minutiae

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