• davel@lemmy.ml
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    it’s the rich continuously stealing more capital and destroying businesses that is the problem

    The rich are rich because they own the businesses. They own the means of production. The problem is capitalism; it’s private ownership of the means of production.

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      I don’t see the connection, personally. There’s no problem when wealth is probably managed and distributed. Plenty of societies do that with private ownership, and there’s no reason to believe that a communist society would do it better.

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        Then you’re entirely misunderstanding all of human history. Communism has been the source of the most effective poverty alleviation programs in the history of humanity.