I really wish people stopped using "capitalism" as a catch all for anything that they see as bad in the world right not.
Just to put one number in perspective, the poverty line in the US was $12,880 for a single person (per wikipedia). That is a lot of money in international and historic terms (it's more than what I make in Argentina with a PhD scholarship!).
The "contradiction" here is that poverty is usually measured relative to a country's wealth.
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kolektiva.socialAlso, what does the US government budget distribution have to do with capitalism? First, we are talking about the government, not private enterprise, two, there are other "capitalist countries" with different budget distributions (some of them don't even have an army) and, third, historically, communist countries also spent a bunch in the military.
@eliocamp I’d have to agree. Capitalism is terrible, but the absurdly bloated US military expenditure doesn’t strike me as capitalism at all. It’s straight up imperialism. The US does a lot of truly horrible things that other capitalist countries don’t precisely because it’s the closest thing in the world to 21st century imperial power. It projects power militarily as all other empires do, regardless of their economic system
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