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  • If you take a look at the global wealth distribution, the richest 10 percent own 86% of all the

  • wealth while the other 90% owns the rest.

  • In fact, in the last 10 years, the number of billionaires has doubled with a new billionaire

  • created every 2 days.

  • In 2018 alone, the wealth of world billionaires increased by 900 billion dollars.

  • When you take a look at such numbers, it seems like Capitalism has created the most unfair

  • society in human history.

  • These giant corporations care about nothing but to make money at the expense of others

  • and the environment.

  • That might be true to a certain extent but believe or not, despite all of its weaknesses,

  • capitalism is the best system that we have ever had.

  • for much of human history, the entire world was living in extreme poverty.

  • And for thousands of years, that didn't change.

  • The entire world were farmers except for the king and the people around him and that was

  • the case in every other country but with the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism

  • that began to change.

  • And in the next couple of centuries, we have made more progress than in the last thousands

  • of years.

  • In fact, According to the world bank, in 25 years from 1990 to 2015, over a billion people

  • lifted themselves out of extreme poverty and the global poverty rate is now lower than

  • it has ever been in history.

  • It's is one of the greatest human achievements of our time.

  • And by 2030, the world is aiming to end extreme poverty for good.

  • And that's mostly due to capitalism.

  • Since the fall of the soviet union, more and more countries embraced free market and opened

  • themselves to the world which gave billions of people all around the world an opportunity

  • to improve their lives

  • However, No matter how hard we try, there will always be wealth inequality as long as

  • there is a free market because there will be competition.

  • People are different, some are willing to work 40 hours a week while others 80 and some

  • don't want to work and bing watch on Netflix.

  • Not everyone is smart enough to build a prosperous carrier.

  • Not everyone is ready to put the time and effort to become financial literature to make

  • the right investment.

  • In fact, some people are simply careless and would easily get into debts that they will

  • be paying for the rest of their lives.

  • On the other side, you might be born in a wealthy family and your path to success and

  • wealth will be much easier.

  • And that's why people hate capitalism.

  • Freedom is great if you are disciplined, smart and wise because you will easily be ahead

  • of everyone else but if you are not, you probably will have a mediocre life.

  • However, the only alternative option we have is socialism.

  • Which has proven to be a horrible idea.

  • I mean, it sounds great and noble, that's probably why so many people find it appealing,

  • but in practice, it has always been a disaster.

  • Whenever the government intervenes in the economy and tries to distribute the wealth

  • fairly, it ends up hurting the very people it intends to help.

  • Even in the most Capitalistic country in the world, the united states.

  • Once upon a time, education was very affordable in the United States.

  • However, the government wanted to help more people to get educated so that they can get

  • a better job and have a prosperous life.

  • So it started providing aid and student loans to everyone who wants to go to college.

  • That seems like a noble thing to do, just imagine how many people will be lifted out

  • of poverty, nonetheless, it ended up hurting the students and ordinary people.

  • When colleges realized that government is helping these 18-year-old kids to pay for

  • college, they started slowly raising their prices.

  • In fact, they began to build fancy buildings, giant stadiums to attract more students which

  • further increased tuition fees.

  • But that didn't matter because the government was ready to pay for everything anyway.

  • Fast forward to today, college is so expensive that most people who go to college end up

  • becoming poorer because they will have to pay back their student debt for years to come.

  • Especially when you can't even default on it.

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