Do the working class conservatives know capitalism is counter to the teachings of Jesus ?

@Qwerty14 Not true at all. Capitalism is simply the market at work. No other system has generated more wealth and lifted more people out of poverty and provided more goods to the people than capitalism. If you want to see true evil take a long hard look at socialism. It has destroyed more wealth and impoverished more people and enslaved more people and killed more people than any other economic system devised by humanity.

@hippyjoe1955 Do you have a degree in Economics? I do. I studied this and know for a fact that capitalism is a system of a few haves and a lot of have nots. To become a have you gotta take out have nots. There is no way to end poverty playing the capitalist game.

Now socialism (not communism) can actually solve the issue as it allocates resources to those in need. It is about working like a collective whole instead of a bunch of individuals so we only win when everyone is doing well. That is the only way you can't end poverty and there's a reason why social nations usually have better stats than non-social countries.

@Qwerty14 You have a degree in economics and flew to the moon last week by flapping your arms. Too funny. As Hayek said "If a socialist understood the economy he wouldn't be a socialist". As for you alleged degrees you can fold them until they are all corners and stick them where the sun don't shine. They are not worth the paper they are written on.

@Qwerty14

Sounds like redistribution of wealth to me!

@hippyjoe1955 You sound like an antitheist who says: "If a Christian actually read the Bible they wouldn't be a Christian". So narrow-minded. You're as bad as those you argue with on here.

@Qwerty14 Son you should ask for your money back if you honestly earned a degree in economics and think socialism is in any way superior to capitalism. You can not find one socialist country in the world where the citizens are thriving.

@hippyjoe1955 I live in a socialist nation. I think I know a little bit better than you. Currently ranked #1 in the world as we are pretty much the only nation to actually get the Coronavirus under control. Remind me where US is ranked... Was it dead last? Haha

@Qwerty14 What nation is that. (I can use a good joke when it turns out to be a capitalist nation with a welfare state).

@hippyjoe1955 You understand that socialism isn't the complete absence of a market yeah? That's communism. I said earlier not to conflate the two. Many social forms of government still have a market but also rely on the state for things such as education, health, transport, environment, etc. In fact you very rarely see a well off country that is truly capitalist as most governments restrict their markets these days. Even the US isn't really capitalist. They're just the best example of a first world nation that has resisted being social even at the cost of its people

@IstillmissEP Sweden isn't socialist. It is capitalist with an excessive welfare state that is about to be trimmed back because there isn't enough capital to run the welfare programs.

@Qwerty14 Let me put it this way. I live in a province that voted socialist. Within a few months unemployment spiked and real incomes dropped. Sadly this province didn't observe the facts that 40 odd years ago its sister province voted socialist. At the time both provinces had about the same population and the same level of income. 30 years on the capitalist province had 4 times the population. It had Billions of dollars in the bank. It had the lowest rate of poverty in the country. It was sending Billions of dollars to the province next door to help it survive. To this day you can drive across the provincial boundary in a border city and notice the difference. On the capitalist side are new houses, new cars, lots of businesses. On the socialist side are run down houses and a ton of vacant store fronts. Those businesses still operating on the socialist side are old and look run down. You should seek a refund on your economic degree. You were indoctrinated not educated and you aren't smart enough to know that. Sucks to be you.

@hippyjoe1955 They taught me how to exploit the system and get rich. That's all business degrees are. A way to use capitalism to your advantage. Fun fact, you do it by being an individualist and stepping on everyone else. The model doesn't work and it sure as hell doesn't help the majority. In fact, under capitalism you'll never see more than 10% of the world financially stable. Are you really comfortable with that?