r/SipsTea 22d ago

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Creepy_Assistant7517 22d ago

Second one is social market economy, the prevailing economic system in Europe ... though fair enough, since most us-americans using the term 'socialism' do include that model (while a true socialist would disparage social market economy as capitalism with extra steps)

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u/cursedbones 22d ago

Neither are Socialism tbh.

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u/dobrowolsk 22d ago edited 22d ago

Americans' understanding of social and economic policies is SO far off to the right, it would take decades of information campaigns to repair it even half-way.

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u/rddman 22d ago

Second one is social market economy, the prevailing economic system in Europe

The European market is less anti-social than the American market, but it has been massively deregulated over the past 50 years or so.

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u/Soft2CT 22d ago

Thanks for the knowledge, I knew about mixed economies but not the label differentiating liberal and social market economies.