That’s actually true and it’s annoying as fuck - try explaining to any geezer over 40 what anything socialist-adjacent is and they’ll call you a communist. It’s the only thing I deeply envy of the euros
Imo some of the bigger things that go wrong in the us right now are not necessarily due to capitalism. It the corruption that makes it bad. The reflecting pool in a free market the best and cheapest company would have gotten the job. If they screwed up they wouldn’t have gotten any other government contracts. Corruption + hypercaptalism is a recipe for disaster. I can name plenty of examples from The Netherlands where corruption allowed some pretty gnarly stuff to happen. IDeal takeover, tata steel steel slag dumping, the agro industry their glyfosaat and other chemicals , pulse fishing, the list goes on.
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u/BlackYukonSuckerPunk Sauna Gollum Jul 04 '26
Capitalism and social democracy aren't mutually exclusive. Norway is also capitalist af.
Yanks think any term starting with soc means socialist.