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Yes, I'm the only one talking about communism in lemmy, you got me there...
You might want to go check about Social Democracy.
You know, like in several Scandinavian countries, the very same that keep scoring high in happinness indices and have the highest per-capita wealth in the World (most easilly beating the US).
Just because you (understandably, if you indeed were born in an ex-Communist country) have a trauma with "Communism" that doesn't mean that "there are only two options Capitalism or Communism" isn't a massive falacy or that Capitalism is a great way to manage a country.
That you keep doubling down just makes it seem you're a mindless fan of Capitalism rather than an oppositor of Communism, and that kind of tribalist take is quite the simpleton approach to evaluation options for the managing of actual countries.
It really makes no logical sense to respond to criticism of Capitalism with "whatabout Communism".
Regarding Scandinavian countries, this is a good read. Nordic countries run on a mixed economy. They aren't just a capitalist economy, which the other person is trying to claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of social corporatism, and a commitment to private ownership within a market-based mixed economy—with Norway being a partial exception due to a large number of state-owned enterprises and state ownership in publicly listed firms. Although there are significant differences among the Nordic countries, they all have some common traits. The three Scandinavian countries are constitutional monarchies, while Finland and Iceland have been republics since the 20th century. All the Nordic countries are however described as being highly democratic and all have a unicameral legislature and use proportional representation in their electoral systems.
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