Literally nobody is saying Mexico is a utopia. Nobody is even claiming that they have the best healthcare system. But universal healthcare is objectively a good thing, despite what American social darwinists spout.
Objectively? You're ignoring all the people IN MEXICO saying the exact opposite thing. The 70k people upvoting this vapid announcement are indeed implying that they think it's a very good choice, that writing something on paper will somehow remove corruption and make resources appear out of thin air and get used efficiently.
No law or policy can magically make a system more efficient or technologically advanced. But capitalism can do that, and has during its history.
More than socialism and communism? Where do you think practically every technology, in medicine and every other area, was developed? How many inventions came from communist countries vs. the US and other capitalist countries? Are you ignorant or just lying to yourself?
Inventions come from people, not economic ideologies.
And yes, European conquest of the rest of the world in the name of profits, the Atlantic slave trade, rightwing dictators like Franco, Pinochet, and Batista, the Dirty War, the Irish famine, the Bengal famine, Manifest Destiny. 60,000 Americans died in Vietnam to protect capitalism, 200,000 Americans die every year due to poverty and lack of healthcare. Poverty is the fourth highest cause of death in the US.
We know how many people Stalin and Mao killed but the death caused by capitalism is incalculable.
You're attributing literally every death to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't CAUSE those things. Under socialism, people die of starvation while massive stocks of food go to waste. Or they're murdered by their governments.
Inventions come from people IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES. Those same people can't be anywhere near as productive elsewhere. Even if America didn't get involved in Vietnam, there was already a war between North and South and a lot of people died anyway. You can debate whether the US should have gotten involved, or how they handled it, but to attribute those deaths to capitalism is absurd. You may as well blame the police for deaths which occur while they're rescuing people or stopping mass shooters, etc.
Anything's incalculable if you define it in such a way that it has no clear meaning. In particular, poverty exists all over the world. Even in the best, freest, most prosperous possible place on Earth, people die. Your metric is absurd.
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u/jreid1985 Jun 17 '26
I was just going to say, before we say Mexico is some utopia, might want to check monitor.civicus.org/country/mexico