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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by turgid on Sunday October 28 2018, @04:36PM (1 child)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 28 2018, @04:36PM (#754700) Journal

    Funny that. I thought it was the Welfare State and the National Health service. "Capitalism" is just a label.

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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:45PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Wednesday October 31 2018, @09:45PM (#756192)

    > Funny that. I thought it was the Welfare State and the National Health service. "Capitalism" is just a label.

    Both the Welfare state and the NHS exist because they can leech off the capitalist economy in a parasitical fashion. On their own they are unsustainable, so arguably, capitalism did bring people out of poverty, even if it was done by siphoning a portion of that generated income out of the system and into welfare projects.