Capitalism Is Bad

In your second paragraph you state that the poor benefit from capitalism just ask much as the rich. You also state that the poor live considerable well given their economic state. This is simply not true. Take a trip into the inner city, to the slums where the poorest people live in awful conditions. Do these people live a comfortable life? Or take people in Africa, China, and rural industrialized countries. There lives certainly are not any better because of capitalism. In these places where the only jobs available are minimum wage industrial jobs we see capitalism once again taking advantage of the working class. The value of human life comes into question when dealing with how those at the top look at the working class. The ones who are getting rich off of the labors of these people are the ones that devalue the lives of the working class because they know that if one worker should die another will take their place, thus there is no incentive to help out those workers with issues such as health care, better education, and better working conditions. In a true socialist setting people are not dirt poor. Instead all of humanity would live in affluence. Maybe not the extremes seen in the modern world, but all as comfortable as another. And socialism and communism still allow workers to rise through the ranks of any organization only without the corruption of capital. The incentive would come from each man wanting to make humanity and himself better by working hard. You say with communism "The only opportunity you have is sameness, poverty, and despair." This is not true at all. In Marxist philosophy is extremely optimistic. Without capital we would all have the value replaced in our lives making our lives about living to the fullest instead of a constant rat race to gain as much money as fast as one can. In a socialist system there would be no more poverty or despair because the root cause of those issues, the exploitation of the worker, would be gone. Everyone knows that the PRC is communist in name only. They rank among the worst nations for exploitation of the working class by western powers. They refuse to allow for labor organizations that have always campaigned for the worker and an end to poverty. They have allowed Western countries to come into their country and exploit there people who then become victims of the free market system. Once again there is no incentive to help the poor when it comes to healthcare. Capitalists do not want you to get better, rather they would have you keep paying more the free market healthcare companies and then just get well enough to continue to work. And if you do get truly sick the capitalists can cut you off from that source of help and allow you to die because they will just get another to take you place. Capitalism is not a good system. The argument that is allows people to prosper is inherently false. Granted it allows some to prosper, but the vast majority of people ranging from the middle class to the extremely poor are enslaved within the system. You do not rot within socialism of communism, but rather you are free to cast your own lot in life just like everyone else and you are not subjected to the constant poverty, suffering, and rape of the environment that a free market system has offered to the world.