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Government doing things ≠ socialism.
Government regulating things ≠ socialism
Roads and parks ≠ socialism
Socialism is based in the collective ownership of companies by the workers who make everything happen, rather than execs and managers. Socialism isn't when government does stuff or when healthcare.
I'm just going off of the definition here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
We definitely don't have a pure capitalist economy since that would mean that there is no government intervention in the market.
And we do have parts of the economy that are owned/run by the government as socialism would suggest.
What would you call it, if not a mix of capitalism and socialism? Maybe a mix of Capitalism and Communism would be more accurate?
This article would seem to suggest that: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economy.asp
I would argue that the very means of communist ownership relying on the state means that state capitalism is the means in which communism is reached, and the Soviet Union definitely aligned closer to that, but this is a topic of dispute with scholars.
I like how enraged you were that your comment just abruptly ends. It comes off like you were ranting in front of a microphone and got so worked up you walked away mid-rant. Just ranting down the hallway, and down the street.....but we don't hear it, because you're away from the microphone.
It's supposed to be in the style of those "socialism is when government does stuff" memes. That's pretty much how all of them end
Never seen one.
Now you have.
Maybe get out from under the rock more often