"Capitalism is fundamentally Anti- Human" - Dr. Know
Today there are no homeless in Russia. Just try and find a picture of a homeless camp in Russia on the internet and post it here for the rest of us to see.. At the time of the Bolshevik revolution 60% of the factory workers in Russia were homeless. They slept under their work benches with their families and routinely worked 12 hour days six days a week. It is a legacy of the communist revolution in Russia that the government protects you against homelessness -- you are guaranteed a place to live by the Russian constitution. Compare this with the 40,000 homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, and I leave it to you to be the judge as to which society today is more compassionate, or just.
The organizational ethos of the society is the key here, In Capitalism, profit is paramount and above all else in importance. Profit is actually the only variable that is even measured, or considered, when evaluating outcomes of business decisions. Almost nothing is important except money and generating a profit.
In my mind, the success and glory of the top 1% hardly compensates for the exploitation and misery of the least successful 50%. But when the only thing that is counted, or recognized, is the magnitude of the monetary gulf that separates them, the awareness of the suffering of the lower half of humanity vanishes into obscurity and oblivion.
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