Adding capitalism doesnt work, fixing microsoft.

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+This tweet is not only referring to the length of time something has been around, but the *indoctrination* around it being the only "system that works", and the **regressive argument that we can't switch to [anything better](https://i.imgur.com/X83EVjG.jpg).**
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+I'm sure when vaccinations were developed, there were many who said, "we haven't needed them before, so why do we need them now?"
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+Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". The US, the most developed capitalist country, the richest country in the history of the world has:
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+- Enough food to feed [10 billion people](https://www.oxfam.ca/there-enough-food-feed-world), yet [1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/) 
+- [6 houses for every homeless person](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html). Of course they sit empty, "the market is the most efficient way of allocating resources". [2.5 million **homeless children**, or ~1 / 30](https://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052). In the UK, [there are 10x more empty houses than homeless families](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151).  
+- [UNICEF](http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/pdfs/sowc06_chap1.pdf), [RESULTS](https://web.archive.org/web/20080527011602/http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=241), and [Bread for the World](http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/facts.html) estimate that **15 million** people die **each year** from preventable poverty, of whom 11 million are **children under the age of five**. ([source](http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/crimes-against-humanity-01-poverty-murder-over-400-million-people-since-1995-more-than-all-wars-in-recorded-history.html)). 
+- In the US alone, [20-40k deaths every year](http://obamacarefacts.com/facts-on-deaths-due-to-lack-of-health-insurance-in-us/) because of lack of health insurance. On average, that's 300k over the last decade.
+- [8 men control as much wealth as half the worlds population.](https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html) Anyone wanna take a guess at how this game of monopoly ends?
+- [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich). 
+- [US Life expectancy peaked in 2015, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China.](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-boasts-that-its-healthy-life-expectancy-beats-the-us-is-correct-2018-5)
+- [Committed countless atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md), killing millions directly and indirectly across the globe. Imperialist network of [800 military bases in 70 countries.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321) 
+- [Most prisoners per capita AND by numbers](https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/). Makes sense, since prison is Capitalism's boarding house. [Runs least 54 agricultural slave labor camps.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_farm#In_the_United_States_.28partial_list.29) 
+- [More here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/5q2oak/someone_dies_under_socialism_no_matter_how_its/dcvu8lg/)
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+Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: "*Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps*" (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or "*Communism doesn't work*", when in fact **Communism did work extremely well.**
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+Examples from [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/86tqdd/but_socialism_doesnt_work_s/dw7qco0/) by /u/bayarea415 about the USSR specifically: 
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+- [USSR had more nutritious food than the US (CIA)](https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf). [Calories consumed actually surpassed the US](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640). Ended famines.
+- Had the [2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan.](https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/captura-de-pantalla-de-2016-05-26-10-15-23.png) The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular. 
+- [Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world.]( https://www.marxists.org/archive/newsholme/1933/red-medicine/index.htm ) 42 doctors per 10,000 population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.
+- Had zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years. see: Robert C. Allen's, From Farm To Factory. (review [here]( https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~syrbe/pubs/FarmtoFactory.pdf )). The "continuous" part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible.
+- [All education, including university level, free](http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm). [2]( http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm)
+- [99% literacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez).
+- Saved the world from nazism, [killed 7/10 fascist soldier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II), bearing the brunt of casualties in WW2. Nazis were in retreat after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942, a **full 2 years** before the US landed troops in normandy. 
+- [Double life expectancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union). After the October revolution, the life expectancy for all age groups went up. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. [Eliminated poverty.](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/)
+- [End sex inequality](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1977,_Unamended) ). Equal wages for men and women were mandated by law, but sex inequality, although not as pronounced as under capitalism, was perpetuated in social roles. Very important lesson to learn.
+- [End Racial inequality.]( https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2016/jan/24/racial-harmony-in-a-marxist-utopia-how-the-soviet-union-capitalised-on-us-discrimination-in-pictures)
+- Feudalism to [space travel](https://i.imgur.com/pe0tg2y.jpg) in 40 years. [First satellite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program), rocket, space walk, man, woman, animal, space station, moon and mars probes.
+- Had zero homelessness. Houses were often shared by two families throughout the 20s and 30s – so unlike capitalism, there were no empty houses, but the houses were very full. In the 40s there was the war, and in the 50s there were a number of orphans from the war. The mass housing projects began in the 60s, they were completed in the 70s, and by the 70s, there were homeless people, but they often had genuine issues with mental health.
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+Now let's take a look at what happens after the USSR collapse: 
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+- [Life expectancy decreases by 10 years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Life_expectancy ). [2. ](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Fj8E.png) [7.7 million excess deaths in the first year](http://www.academia.edu/1072631/Review_Red_Plenty_by_Francis_Spufford ). [2](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC259165/)
+- [40% of population drops into poverty]( https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/07/unpo-j28.html).
+- [GDP instantly halves]( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Soviet_Union_GDP_per_capita.gif).
+- [One in ten children now live on the streets.](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/an-epidemic-of-street-kids-overwhelms-russian-cities/article4141933/) [Infant mortality increases](https://knoema.com/atlas/Russian-Federation/Nenets-Autonomous-District/topics/Demographics/Mortality/Infant-mortality-rate-deaths-before-age-1-per-1000-live-births).Was 29.3 in 2003 which is around (current) Syria and Micronesia, 7.9 in 2013. [Infant mortality in USSR was 1.92](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Life_expectancy_and_infant_mortality), literally the lowest in the world. What the actual fuck. 
+- [1996 election rigged by the US, yeltsin sends in tanks to disperse the supreme soviet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_1996). 
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+For an overview of the soviet experiment, watch this [brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVes44hcJg&feature=youtu.be), or read his article, [Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut.](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/05/23/left-anticommunism-the-unkindest-cut/)
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+Also read this great article by Stephen Gowans, [Do publicly owned, planned economies work?](https://gowans.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/do-publicly-owned-planned-economies-work/). [Audiobook on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYf3gZZFa0k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjobDdDbSC_YgZfV94BQiRIB8)
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+Bonus vid about cyber-communism: [Paul Cockshott - Going beyond money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI01-5zhwdA). 
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+More sources: [Socialism Crash Course](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_course_socialism.md), [Socialism FAQ](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md), [Glossary](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/glossary_of_socialist_terms.md). /r/communism101, /r/debatecommunism. https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk
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microsoft.md

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 # Whats so bad about microsoft?
 
 - Microsoft collaborated with the [NSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY)'s prism program to: 
-  - Spy on its all its outlook email service users (NSA could read all your email)
-  - All users files on onedrive (NSA could read all your files)
+  - Read and store all outlook service emails. 
+  - Read all your onedrive files.
   - NSA recorded all skype calls.
+  - [Windows 10 watches everything you type and sends it to microsoft.](http://www.newsweek.com/windows-10-recording-users-every-move-358952) Branded by microsoft as telemetry, its stated purpose  is to provide you a *personalized user dictionary*, and provide you with text suggestions as you type. Even after turned off, [it still collects data and sends to microsoft.](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/) Microsoft retroactively added Windows 10 spying to [Windows 7 and 8. ](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/windows/microsoft-slips-user-tracking-tools-into-windows-7-8-amidst-windows-10-privacy-storm.html)
 - [Microsoft has a long history of buying up and killing small companies to stifle competition and innovation.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft) The US Department of Justice launched an anti-trust suit against microsoft in 2001. Documents on microsoft found that they referred to a policy called [Embrace, Extend, Extinguish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish), to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with [proprietary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software) capabilities, and then using those differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors. This policy was either attempted or successfully carried out via:
   - After Microsoft crushed browser competition with its operating system monopoly, a [web dark ages stalled browser development for 2 years.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/)
   - Browser incompatibilities : killing netscape via incompatible java, css, and activex incompatibilies.
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   - Java incompatibilities: Tried to kill sun by introducing java incompatibilities. Lost two lawsuits to Sun. 
   - Messaging : Killed AOL's instant messenger via embracing then introducing incompatibilities in AIM messenger.
   - Microsoft acquired Nokia, and mandated that windows phone 7 be put on all new phones. [9000 workers quit the company in protest](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/), and Nokia's brand value fell from [98th to 5th place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia) in 2014.
+  - [Microsoft acquires skype, it becomes bloated and users flee to other platforms.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/736tfh/skype_is_officially_bloatware_uninstalled_it/)
 
 - Its [workers often suffer burnout](https://archive.is/20120629191556/http://www.krsaborio.net/research/1980s/89/890423.htm), and has been called a *velvet sweatshop*. Microsoft lost a lawsuit for $93 million for using "permatemp" employees, which were worked as hard as ordinary employees, yet received none of the benefits. Microsoft is the largest American corporate user of H-1B guest worker visas in order to pay them less. Microsoft has also come under criticism for developing software capable of analyzing the output of remote sensors in order to [measure the competence and productivity of workers based on their physical responses.](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/microsoft-seeks-patent-for-office-spy-software-h0dd5zmtfnt)
-- [Windows 10 watches everything you type and sends it to microsoft.](http://www.newsweek.com/windows-10-recording-users-every-move-358952) Branded by microsoft as telemetry, its stated purpose  is to provide you a *personalized user dictionary*, and provide you with text suggestions as you type. Even after turned off, [it still collects data and sends to microsoft.](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/) Microsoft retroactively added Windows 10 spying to [Windows 7 and 8. ](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/windows/microsoft-slips-user-tracking-tools-into-windows-7-8-amidst-windows-10-privacy-storm.html)
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-- [Windows 10 puts ads in its start menu.](https://i.redd.it/ucvp90gu6zw01.jpg)
-- [Microsoft acquires skype, it becomes bloated and users flee to other platforms.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/736tfh/skype_is_officially_bloatware_uninstalled_it/)
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 ## Sources
 

socialism_faq.md

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 ### Whats so bad about Bill Gates?
 
-- [Microsoft crimes masterpost.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/microsoft.md)
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 - [He's a philanthro-capitalist imperialist: using the bill and melinda gates foundation charity as a bargaining chip to work in the interests of billionaire elites. This impoverishes poorer countries, undermining their democracy and independence by making them fully dependent on US aid.](https://www.liberationnews.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/)
+- [Controversial Gates foundation vaccination testing (discovered to be for pharmaceutical companies Merck and Pfizer) kills 5 girls in India, leads to public outrage.](https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/amp_articleshow/41280050.cms)
+- [Citations Needed - The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media.](https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media)
+- [Post from a web developer about Microsoft's bullshit in the 1990s.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ragecomics/comments/11c1t1/internet_explorer_rfunny_said_i_should_post_it/c6lbhu2/)
+- [Microsoft crimes masterpost.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/microsoft.md)
 - [His charities promote corporate interests above health care](http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/gjn_gates_report_june_2016_web_final_version_2.pdf).
 - [Book about the golden handcuffs of the philanthro-capitalism of Bill Gates.](https://www.versobooks.com/books/2344-no-such-thing-as-a-free-gift)
 
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 - [He snitched out Jews, Black people, Homosexuals, and communists to British Intelligence.](https://bennorton.com/george-orwell-list-leftists-snitch-british-government/) 
 - [He was a rabid anti-communist, so much so that the animated animal farm film was funded by the CIA.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/how-cia-brought-animal-farm-to-the-screen/)
 - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/)
+- [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/).
 
 ### Did the atom bombs really end WW2?