Equality of opportunity does not work, the richest 1% continue to get richer year over year whilst the poorest get poorer and this isn’t a slogan this is a real statistic we can see. Even the middle classes are entitled to less now and the trend will only continue. Then we have inherited wealth, people tend not to work for they’re fortune its often inherited.
So if the intention of equality of opportunity is to bring prosperity than its failed the largest percentage of people. Really I think its a way for people to say “well we tried, we gave them the opportunity” and in that way they can sleep at night.
The USSR took place 1922 to 1991 where homelessness fell drastically, literacy bloomed to near 100%, people who’d only heard of electricity suddenly had electricity, ‘diets became much better as well as food portions’ (this is power phrased from a leaked FBI document which detailed nutrition being better of an american), work was a given thing if someone was of ably body and mind they’d have a consistent job. In truth the USSR worked amazingly at points, especially considering the state it came from, they skipped capitalism and were feudal before the revolution so had no modern infrastructure like farm equipment, industry and others.
The USSR was a messy thing and to understand the full context would take a lot of explaining, inside the politburo there were bad actors for sure but externally the USSR had to deal with Americas mccarthyism and strong arm tactics, setting nukes on the Russian border or training and supplying arms to terror organisation to economically drain the USSR which the damage can be seen current day in the middle east and even in the USA and Russia with the opioid crises.
But the best part is that once the USSR crumbled we’d like to think the victory of capitalism lead to prosperity and liberation of Russia but the standard of living has dropped, social housing is now privately owned and rented at prices most can’t afford, the average age has declined in Russia, dietary standards have dropped, domestic abuse risen, education levels fallen.
With your last statement I’m sure the feudalist said the same to early capitalism.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer because we don’t have equality of oppertunity. Still if u worked for ur fortune or not do u really want to take that oppertunity away from everyone else?
Again we do not have equality of oppertunity nor is the ideal of it even particularly tied to capitalism. But we didn’t give people the oppertunity we didn’t give them a fair chance anyone who pretends we did is either stupid or promoting a straw man.
As for everything u said about the USSR stop sucking the dick of a dead empire.
Maybe social standards dropped cos of a dictatorship not capitalism but who knows. From my understanding there are many nations that had and continue to have far better standards than the soviet union and well all of them are capitalist.
Then again I’m not arguing for or against capitalism or socialist/communist just that we should be willing to accept ideas from both and incorporate them to build something better.
Equality of opportunity does not work, the richest 1% continue to get richer year over year whilst the poorest get poorer and this isn’t a slogan this is a real statistic we can see. Even the middle classes are entitled to less now and the trend will only continue. Then we have inherited wealth, people tend not to work for they’re fortune its often inherited.
So if the intention of equality of opportunity is to bring prosperity than its failed the largest percentage of people. Really I think its a way for people to say “well we tried, we gave them the opportunity” and in that way they can sleep at night.
The USSR took place 1922 to 1991 where homelessness fell drastically, literacy bloomed to near 100%, people who’d only heard of electricity suddenly had electricity, ‘diets became much better as well as food portions’ (this is power phrased from a leaked FBI document which detailed nutrition being better of an american), work was a given thing if someone was of ably body and mind they’d have a consistent job. In truth the USSR worked amazingly at points, especially considering the state it came from, they skipped capitalism and were feudal before the revolution so had no modern infrastructure like farm equipment, industry and others.
The USSR was a messy thing and to understand the full context would take a lot of explaining, inside the politburo there were bad actors for sure but externally the USSR had to deal with Americas mccarthyism and strong arm tactics, setting nukes on the Russian border or training and supplying arms to terror organisation to economically drain the USSR which the damage can be seen current day in the middle east and even in the USA and Russia with the opioid crises.
But the best part is that once the USSR crumbled we’d like to think the victory of capitalism lead to prosperity and liberation of Russia but the standard of living has dropped, social housing is now privately owned and rented at prices most can’t afford, the average age has declined in Russia, dietary standards have dropped, domestic abuse risen, education levels fallen.
With your last statement I’m sure the feudalist said the same to early capitalism.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer because we don’t have equality of oppertunity. Still if u worked for ur fortune or not do u really want to take that oppertunity away from everyone else?
Again we do not have equality of oppertunity nor is the ideal of it even particularly tied to capitalism. But we didn’t give people the oppertunity we didn’t give them a fair chance anyone who pretends we did is either stupid or promoting a straw man.
As for everything u said about the USSR stop sucking the dick of a dead empire.
The whole food thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
Maybe social standards dropped cos of a dictatorship not capitalism but who knows. From my understanding there are many nations that had and continue to have far better standards than the soviet union and well all of them are capitalist.
Then again I’m not arguing for or against capitalism or socialist/communist just that we should be willing to accept ideas from both and incorporate them to build something better.
I found the reason people call you names. I’m only here for a polite disagreement. Take it easy
Please do elaborate