re: #415 Shiplord Kirel

People will only tolerate so much abuse. Unregulated, laissez-faire capitalism is not a ticket to prosperity, it is a ticket to socialism or worse.

Full on balls to the wall socialism exists in very few countries in the western world - plenty of them have “mixed” economies though and they seem to be doing ok.
The scandinavian countries have quite leftist leanings and they seem to do ok for themselves.
Average wages in Germany with large unions and a semi-socialist economy are more favourable than American ones.

using socialism as the boogie man on aboard where a lot of us live in relatively left wing countries doesn’t hold too well.
Also - socialism, balls to the wall nationalise coal/gas/water/state mandated living wage is pretty much dead and will not be making a comeback north of the equator within the democracies.