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Resources obtained in a capitalist system are used to create even more resources and wealth.
This is the exact opposite of a socialist system, which destroys everything it touches, the ultimate cannibal.
Ironically, it is the very "Worker" the socialists worship that helps ensure this ... because why on Earth should they work?? It's like in the USSR where the people had a saying: "We pretend to work, and you pretend to pay us."
China's economy is now on the brink of collapse. This is INEVITABLE. COMMUNISM DOES NOT WORK (at least once the capitalist system throws off the parasite, as POTUS is now doing).
Sadly, most people do not really understand how capitalism works; but, suffice to say, if there is no incentive for CAPITAL (including debt leveraged against equity) to be put into a business, then the ONLY METHOD of BUSINESS FINANCE is CONFISCATION. (Tell your millennial friend to try passing the hat amongst their friends for capital without offering a return. They won't be able to finance a respectable hot-dog stand, much less a significant factory. SHEESH!)
Without the incentive to work, the ONLY METHOD of getting people to WORK, is SLAVERY.
Socialism = Confiscation of property + Slave Labor.
No exceptions.
It's past time to stop feeding the parasites and stop coddling ignorance.
Who is John Galt?
See tag line...
Capitalism is the natural order of things. I refer you to the ancient Silk Route... Even older: Nabta Playa, southern Egypt, 9,000 BC et fol. There were lakes there in wetter times and it was a thriving center for cattle and other livestock. Much of their flocks were driven to Mesopotamia, perhaps a thousand miles away - for trade. Why go to so much trouble to travel such distances unless there was gain involved?
Moderns (post-Darwins) would say that that is outdated now, we have evolved to a higher plane of commerce. Yeah, go tell the Pilgrims at Plymouth; as usual, socialism led to massive deaths... never fails every time it is tried.