You're misquoting the question in a deliberately misleading way. But fine, you want proof socialism works? Social Security. Medicare. The universal healthcare coverage of every developed nation except the US. Finland's experimental UBI system has so far yielded tons of positive data and results. SNAP keeps thousands of kids from going to bed hungry. Public education has gotten us to a literacy saturation point undreamt of a few centuries ago. These are all socialist principles. They are owned by the public because they advance the public good without the extraneous need to make a small handful of greedy shitbirds a fuck load of money.
And capitalism's flaw is in its failure to recognize that it is inherently built in such a way that capital will inevitably concentrate at the top and crash the market when the lower classes no longer have enough money combined to keep the market flowing. This is late-stage capitalism. Corporations have reached a peak of market share and saturation, but their shareholders expect ever larger quarterly returns. When your market it tapped out, the only thing to do is start cutting. But as we have seen play out repeatedly in the real world, it's rarely the CEOs who take a pay cut in solidarity with their workers. And of course, cutting has diminishing returns as before too long all those cuts to payroll and services result in a lower quality of service.
Or take the neoliberal scam of trickle-down economics. The theory goes that if we cut taxes for large corporations and the wealthy elite, they'll reinvest that money into the economy. Instead, they just squirrel the extra money away in tax shelters or trust funds and use the corporate largesse to initiate stock buybacks to artificially inflate quarterly returns.
Essentially, capitalism is a ponzi scheme by design. It recognizes no intrinsic value in humanity. It is a system that allows the rich to grow richer at the expense of everyone else. It is a system that rewards criminal behavior and in fact, the higher up the socio-economic ladder you climb, the less and less the rules and laws apply to you. Wall Street gambled with our money and crashed our economy in 2008, but not a single bankster saw the inside of a jail cell. Instead, they got bailed out and pocketed the money.
And this is before we get into outsourcing of jobs to skirt labor laws, the highly unethical means of acquiring raw materials from developing nations, the sheer amount of bloodshed in suppressing organized labor of any kind, the horrific environmental impact and the radical alienization of the populace as a consequence of hyper-consumerism, FOMO, and the commoditization of every facet of our existence. Capitalism is an anti-humanist ideology.
That's a lovely strawman but what does it have to do with anything I just said? I mean, just go ahead and burn the damn thing, I don't care. Again, if you in any way, shape or form plan on voting for Trump this year, then you don't get to call other people divisive. Supporting Trump is supporting division.
