text: do you like capitalism? every communist economy has failed, and america is richer than any socialist country in the world. the poor people in this country are better off than in any socialist country like france, because there is a greater amount of wealth in our economy. capitalism provides the best upward mobility for people of all classes of any economic system practiced. it is not particularly friendly to those that are handicapped mentally or suffer from a lack of motivation but  given the other choices i'll stick with capitalism.  jess- the us has far fewer monopolies than are tolerated in most non-socialistic systems   cantu- stop spreading lies the larest percentage of earnings as in almost all capitalistic systems is controlled by the middle class. the us by a wide margin has a greater percentage of its population that are among the worlds truely wealthy that any country out there barring some very small countries where by its nature the percentage appears skewed.  voltare- you are presenting a skewed case. for one why would you include liechtenstein ( correct spelling by the way) in your argument it's economy is extremely capitalistic and the government exhibits the least socialistic tendencies of any in europe! on the issues of poor people in france being worse off i can not reasonably justify such a statement in general. i can say that opportunity to move from the lower economic strata  into into a better economic strata is greater (did not say better) in the us.  certainly without dispute the productivity combined with with earnings of the us economy dwarfs anyone in the world