| Comment | But how do you attribute these improvements to capitalism? Take Scotland for instance, is education and healthcare provided on a free market basis? No.
Let's take housing as an example. Scotland has in recent years lowered its poverty level dramatically. It has done this through utilising social housing.
https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/article/social-housing-investment-reduces-poverty-improves-health-and-drives-economic-growth
The UK in general has suffered massively through the expansion of private rentals. It exacerbates poverty and instability.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001905/
This is just one example of how poverty has decreased in capitalist countries but not as a result of capitalism. You need to learn to think critically about positive relationships in data, that is, just because it happened in a capitalist country, doesn't mean it happened because of capitalism. |
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