After decades of being the boogie man in much of the western world, socialism is now being heralded as a solution to the problems facing many people. In social media, the mass media, and now even at happy hour, there are conversations vocally in favor of places famously free-market, such as the USA, adopting some form of socialism.
On the other hand, staunch supporters of capitalism are ardently against anything that even smells like it has communist principles!
But was are these things that everyone is arguing about anyway?
To answer that, let’s go to my native land of America — the poster child of modern capitalism.
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