Why be a socialist when the world is constantly improving under capitalism?

Why be a socialist when the world is constantly improving under capitalism?

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The world is improving not under Capital itself but Capital somewhat restrained enough to reach technological capacity industrialization is longer a requirement for an economy.

That being said, the Western World always needs industrialization, and they shift the burden through foriegn policy. Be it Asia or Africa. Diamond Mining or Mass Manufacture.

"The American Dream," is not an ideological necessity to Capitalism, you don't really have a chance in a world that's both more and less safe than it was to you financially, or any value really, than in the early 20th century.

You'll find there's more complexity to the issue than just "People aren't getting poor", it's that the bridge between classes is widening in a level to surpass World War II era Japan a hundred times over within the next century. Which is catastrophic regardless of poverty.

You'll see poverty level off anyways, which is bad. At some point Capital will need a massively disenfranchised underclass.

Because poverty is relative: if I have enough to keep toiling while 8 individuals own over 60% of what the rest of my kind have collectively, "poverty" here simply means that my labor is able to remain competitive enough to keep running the system that produces them.

Also, and this is more as a communist than a socialist, the fight against capitalism was never one against the social bads it systemically produces first, like immiseration, alienation, divide and conquer tactics along identitarian/categorical lines and economic crisis, but about supporting the revolutionary subject under this system that is the working class in achieving its material interest in overthrowing a system that constantly demands that its labor be allocated for market exchange instead of direct human necessity.

Not saging because while you're a faggot, you might not be here with ill intentions.

Oops, still had my shitposting flag on.

The world has always constantly improved

Industrialization is improving the world, not capitalism. Poverty could be eliminated literally overnight of it weren't for capitalism, any elimination of poverty that occurs under capitalism is a side effect. It happens in spite of capitalism, not because of it.

… because you are confusing brute accumulation of technology with capitalism?

Because things are getting worse for westerners. Incomes have stagnated since the 70s, neoliberalism is on the slow march to obliterating public services, technocrats rape Greece.

No more.

read this

aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/exposing-great-poverty-reductio-201481211590729809.html

In fact, it turns out extreme poverty has not been reduced. It stayed mostly the same since 1980 when non-fudged measures were used.