[A. Pole]

how can increasingly poor people be customers for the factory-owners products? Isn't it in the capitalists interest to have customers able to buy what's being produced?

Unless the rich will advance the class warfare to the formal or informal coup establishing Latin American style oligarchy, the regular people will vote for some Socialist redistribution and get the goodies without bying them.

Normal people prefer to live in socialist Sweden than in San Salvador.

[MrNatural]

..Normal people prefer to live in socialist Sweden than in San Salvador..

Oh, I agree; and, regretfully, it seems those are going to be our two choices.

[SauronOfMordor]

Unless the rich will advance the class warfare to the formal or informal coup establishing Latin American style oligarchy, the regular people will vote for some Socialist redistribution and get the goodies without bying them.

The problem is that the South American model and socialism are both oligarchies, the only difference being that the South Americans are open about it, while the socialist Nomenklatura hide behind the facade. In both cases, the "connected" are wealthy, and the regular people are poor.