True, yet the idiocy is in lumping all of them into one group or blaming the system itself. Are you suggesting Europeans don't pay taxes included in their cell phone or internet bill? Fuck, the Brits pay tax just to watch TV. Not necessarily. There are laws of diminishing returns and regional differences. You can't base the success of an economic system on the price of cell phone service.I agree. But no one was attacking socialism.
Besides, regardless of the good and bad sides of either one it doesn't change the fact that throughout all of recorded history capitalism has been the driving force of innovation and technological - in some cases, cultural - spread.
I've missed you fly.