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Competition forces capitalists to come up with better and cheaper products. Socialists, on the other hand...

When communism fell, so did mass killings. https://buff.ly/2mT3o13

As poverty declines, people start caring about such things as human rights and environmental degradation.

One of the most pernicious myths about economic freedom is that it benefits the few while impoverishing the many.

The amount of labor that once bought 54 minutes of light now buys 52 years of light.

Putting Income Inequality in Perspective

Despite his claim that the capitalist system would impoverish the masses, "When (Karl) Marx died in 1883, the average Englishman was three times richer than he was when Marx was born, in 1818." - @johanknorberg https://buff.ly/2DayTxV

To help the poorest, consider free-market capitalism's impact in the last 200 years in fighting extreme poverty.

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." - Adam Smith

After China liberalized its economy, hundreds of millions escaped poverty. Once India moved toward economic freedom in the 1990s, its population saw a remarkable decline in poverty as well. People lift themselves from poverty wherever they're free to do so