"Sorry, It's Not a 'Law of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees as Little as Possible. It's..."

[branford]

145. Capitalism is the economic system in all first-world (and most other) countries, not just the USA.

Let's look to Sweden and Norway, for example.

They are most definitely capitalist and have social protections well in excess of that offered by Medicare and Social Security. And as I stated before, these countries are very peaceful, rich, productive, entirely democratic, left-wing social democracies with no MIC to speak of, who already possess some truly socialist institutions. They are also some of the least corrupt governments in the world. Nevertheless, even they are moving towards increasing levels of capitalism structure due to the ever rising costs of their laudable comprehensive social benefit system (and due the accompanying negative birth rates inherent in such a system and plaguing much of Europe).

These countries also have multiple political parties devoted to your ideology. These parties will often even win some elections and serve in coalition governments. Absolutely nothing is stopping the people from voting for more politicians that would immediately implement many, if not all, your ideas. Yet, at best, these state socialist and similarly minded politicians usually are nothing more than political oddities and agitators.

Now, who exactly, and by what conceivable manner, is preventing these countries and others from establishing the ever increasing levels of socialism that you desire?

Apparently, unless they are staring down the barrel of a gun, no country or significant number of people are willing to try (again) any system with such demonstrably poor results and abominable history. Just ask most citizens of eastern Europe.