Newsflash for the anti-capitalists who may have been in hibernation for the last 85 years: Capitalism won the battle of the systems

Capitalism may be an evil system. It may be unfair, it may be inefficient, and it certainly breeds inequality. It may be a lot of things. But what it is, more than anything else, is the most efficient economic system to produce prosperity for the population. That's why it won.<br><br>Communism does not work, and nobody is going to make it work for everyone, and most people are smart enough to understand this. We have the chance to see almost every combination of capitalistic and communistic systems in place around the world, and we have the data to compare. The moment the Soviet Union came crashing down, the communist movement reached its last stand. It was a battle of the systems and the Soviet Union lost.<br><br>Communist economies may be stable for a very long time, but they are never going to be prosperous. They may also not even be stable. How long would Cuba have survived without the massive Venezuelan subsidies to the island? How long will it survive now, and when Venezuela itself will fall into complete economic collapse? The reality is that economic systems which lean more towards capitalism today are more prosperous than the ones more towards communism.<br><br>A prosperous country is not a country where everyone is rich, it's a country where most people can afford to work a single job and live a respectable life. A prosperous country is a country where the poor are fat. A prosperous country provides the necessary services to its citizens: high quality education, medicine, infrastructure, and rule of law. It may or may not be a democratic country, but when it is, it's even freer. That's not what communism has to offer. No one will choose to live under communism anymore to be prosperous. We may see some purer forms of authoritarian capitalistic systems or democratic ones, but communism is dead. The reason is simple: a person who lives in a country which ranks high in the human development index (HDI) doesn't give a fuck about the Gini coefficient. The quality of life is what matters. <br><br><br><br>&#x200B;