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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4441238" data-attributes="member: 56035">actually id say the reason young people, myself included, prefer socialism to capitalism is how badly capitalism is working for average joes.average student debt in US is highest in the world.  thats partly because the govt stopped funding post secondary.people havent gotten a raise adjusted for inflation since 1973 last i heard.  you have environmental devastation.  corporate crime (2008 bailouts was a major event). the govt doesnt work anymore because of money.alot of bad things people say about socialism could equally be said about capitalism.  i think the debate of government passing laws vs a free market was the wrong debate to be having.  the debate should have been about concentrations of power which you get in state socialism and capitalism.</blockquote>