Why is the United States still the only true, pro-capitalist country in existence throughout the entire world?

Question

All of the countries in the world that come the closest to the U.S. economic system are still profoundly socialistic countries without any interest in becoming "capitalistic only" countries. Countries outside the U.S. seem to only be interested in making everyone in their own country's "equally miserable all around" instead of greatly improving upon their own economies for the better of the majority of their citizens. Too many people around the world are brainwashed to believe that socialism and communism are the best forms of government that will ever exist on Earth when this is truly not the case. It's no wonder that so many people decide to immigrate-both legally and illegally-from their countries of origin to the U.S. to work and/or live their lives. For everyone who is truly anti-capitalist, if capitalism is truly so bad and so wrong because it discriminates against all of the different social classes, then why do many people continue to come to the U.S. to live and/or work?

Answer 1

"Why is the United States still the only true, pro-capitalist country in existence throughout the entire world?"

I think this is because lazy powerful people have a tremendous amount to lose if the centralization of power involved in socialism diminishes, so they throw their power and money hard into tilting the intellectual and educational establishments pro-socialist. So, you get the universities and the schools doing a hard-sell of socialism, starting with small children, continuing until graduate school.

Happens in the US too, but we've generally been far more resilient in the face of it, I think because a lot of the founding classical liberal principles of our society have been so clearly and strongly touted because of and since the American Revolution.

Look up the writings of Mises for more on the issue of relations between the intellectual class and the power-hungry political class, but be careful to distinguish his work and his ideas from those of the anarchists that claim (falsely, IMO) to have furthered his work.

"For everyone who is truly anti-capitalist, if capitalism is truly so bad and so wrong because it discriminates against all of the different social classes, then why do many people continue to come to the U.S. to live and/or work?"

They will answer this with some story roughly about how the big bad USA ruined their beautiful innocent utopian nations, so now they are forced to come here.

Which is by an large simply not true. It is very hard to get a country that works as well as the US, and we've got a good formula by and large, and that's the real reason.

There are some cases of Americans or the American government really causing problems for other places (Hawaii before it was a state, for example, was really treated badly by men in the sugar business), but the disingenuity in the argument comes because they totally blow the bad vs. the good, and the tremendous restraint despite tremendous power, radically out of proportion.

Answer 2

Because true capitalism requires allowing people to be free to make their own decisions. Even our country is slipping horribly. There are too many government programs that hand out money to people who choose not to contribute to society. There are government regulations that force businesses to pay more than labor is worth or charge less than the market will bear. This is NOT true capitalism.

Yet, America is still the best thing going. Those who do not like it are 100% free to renounce their citizenship and live elsewhere. Why don't those who believe in Communism move to a communist country?

Answer 3

Being desperate,hungry and poverty stricken coupled with employers that would rather pay for a moon shuttle flight importing little greenhorn people that only shake their heads one way up and down willing to pay employers for the privilege of working instead of honoring their own countrymen and women with progressive livable incomes! Some of us dumbbells know who is in control of the printing of money U.S. Congress via U.S. Treasury We want that control turned back to majority rule which is as American as a town square meeting was once upon a time!

Answer 4

Because our Founders wrote it into the Constitution that Americans would forever enjoy Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The PoH is in reality the right to become as successful as you can make yourself within the limits of the law. You cannot become truly successful if you don't own property, i.e. land or a business. Land has value and can be sold for money. A business, if successful, has value and can generate increasing value if it is operated properly. Ask yourself: If I owned a successful business and enjoyed its profits, would I be happier punching a clock at MegaCorp or going into my own business everyday and charting its course based on my experience and talents? If you said "I'd rather run my own business," you have just come to understand exactly what the Pursuit of Happiness is.

Answer 5

Me, the person above, gave an excellent answer. I'd like to add, however, that the USA was founded as a republic and not a democracy. In a republic there is a ruling class, hopefully made up of our brightess and most trustworthy people. That fact is slowly deteriorating as politicans rely more and more on "spin" to get them into office. Politicans today use spin to manipulate the masses, who likely would vote for a candidate simply based on the color of his or her shoes.

Answer 6

I appreciate your appreciation for the capitalist leanings this country has, but as long as we have "social services" and "environmental concerns" and the ACLU, we will be FAR FROM any capitalist utopia you speak of. Maybe we're better, or more capitalist than other countries world wide, but we are FAR FROM any true capitalist economy. Thank God for the likes of George W. Bush and his tax reduction, George H.W. Bush and his very well intended, yet democrat sabotaged "No New Taxes" program back in his term of of office, and Ronald Reagan and his overwhelming capitalist mindset. If it weren't for them, you'd never feel so good about a once-capitalist U.S.A. God Bless you.

Answer 7

Generally the only people who come to the U.S. now are from poor and backward countries. Very few now come from advanced countries. In fact, more affluent Americans are now leaving the U.S. for other countries. Screw your capitalism.

Answer 8

The United States is a strong country military and people wise
and financially strong and there is no rich people leaving the USA!!!!

Answer 9

Because capitalism without restraint leads to things like slavery and war. Study up on your history and/or explore current events in depth.

Answer 10

Europeans truly hate the USA. and they have reasons;)