Question about affordable health care, education and housing in Capitalism?

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Communist government did not allow people to be rich and materialistic while giving ppl the rights for a job, free education, housing and health care. Capitalism on the contrary does not allow people to be nonematerialistic. If you are nonematerialistic person living in Capitalism you simply will not be able to pay rent, health care and education. Capitalism forces you to work for money and think about money every moment of your life even if your nature is against it.

My qustion is how many of you are nonematerialistic and prefer to live in a society where nonematerialistic people could have the job they want (cleaner, labourer, scientist, policman, pilot etc.), work for pleasure not money and at the same time could get affordable health care, housing for families and education for kids and where materialistic people, apart from getting all I mentioned above, could have a chance to work harder and get richer if they wanted to in order to be able to buy very expensive houses, planes yachts, plants, facturies etc? Your answer please.
 
I am from former Soviet Union & we had one phrase there you should know about

"They pretend to pay us & we pretend to work"

Does that answer your question.

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At one time the American way made sense and worked. Every generation wants their children's lives to be better than they had it. I feel sorry for the younger generation - because it will take 20 years to come out of the hole we are in, ( many changes) and quite some time for the younger generation to achieve things like even buying and owning a home.

The runaway greed within the past 10 years or so destroyed it all.

Affordable health care - yes we definitely need it. Doctors CAN take a pay cut and be in the field for the care of people - not the buck. Universal health care is going to be great.

Education - we always need and the more we have, the better we will all be.

I enjoy the simple life. There's not that much wrong with being or becoming a minimalist - and lot less creation of a footprint too.

An overabundance of material things do not necessarily make happiness. Creature comforts like, clean water, nutritious food, a roof over one's head, warmth and workable clothing are necessary for survival. Those are the things we need - and one another, of course.
 
Capitalism is flexible and only as successful as the people engaged in it.

Communism has never been successful and never will be.
 
Being non-materialistic is the correct way to live of course, and the way taught by the major religious figures like Jesus. It would alleviate the majority of our problems by reducing greed and stress as well. Unfortunately most humans are not wired this way and this super-capitalism we live under in the U.S. places enormous peer pressure on anyone who doesn't engage in the highest level of consumerism and materialism they can.
If we could all back off - buy less, save more - our country would be a better place and a safer place because China and Saudi Arabia wouldn't have us over a barrel like they do now.
 
yeah right they looked soo pissed when communism shut down in Russia and when they tore the wall down in Germany, you can tell they were really saying ,"Hey, why did you tear down my wall, now where am i supposed to shoot the people running from us communist." Yah, all that hugging and kissing was really like al pacino in the godfather kissing Fredo..you know like i know it was you and now your gonna die kiss. Apparently, you're not from this country the way your writing cause it sounds like a russian who lost their position in the kremlin.
 
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