Yes Capitalism brings the best in people !
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which he argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short run and suggests explanations as to why this has occurred.[1] In a conversation with Richard Dawkins he states that in last four decades in the United States, the rate of rape has gone down by 80%. He admits that because of the vanishing communication gap, today, the number of reportings of violence has risen giving people an impression of rising rapes, abuses and other violent activities.Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has “civilized” the world in more than one of the word’s root senses, that is, making it “citified,” from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many eighteenth-century European writers also claimed, made it courteous, that is, “civil.” “The terrestrial paradise,” said Voltaire, “is Paris.”
Richer and more urban people, contrary to what the magazines of opinion sometimes suggest, are less materialistic, less violent, less superficial than poor and rural people. Because people in capitalist countries already possess the material, they are less attached to their possessions than people in poor countries. And because they have more to lose from a society of violence, they resist it.
The Bourgeois Virtues,Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Deirdre N. McCloskey
The ideal that Capitalism & commerce has led to a society of selfishness, violence and egoism is simple false and not true.
Today many normal people have access to things that not even the rich possessed 50 years ago. Travelling, clean water and medication and of course most of all opportunities. Yes today you can do many things.
The same is true for violence rape & robbery! They all are on decline on the Capitalist countries open to Commerce for more than 200 years!
Yes capitalism is good, free trade is good, and never more people helped others and dedicated their lives to helping others without benefit.
Sorry despite people are voting more & more in left and right wing extreme parties they are completely wrong.
we are in the right track.
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