My best friend died of a curable illness that she couldn't afford the pills for. In a capitalist society, the medication was kept from her. When you talk about the people who have been lifted up, you need to talk about the people who have also been crushed by capitalism.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…
The poorest Americans today enjoy a standard of living that the richest people on earth couldn’t buy a century ago.
Why?
Free-market capitalism is the only system in history to lift entire societies out of mass poverty.