> It produces steady progress on most any important metric
Some metrics I care about are income equality, homelessness, school shootings, level of education. What are the metrics you care about that you see improving?
> Compared with the Soviet system, that makes it vastly superior.
I'm sure it's also superior to the feudal system and hunter-gatherer systems. The Soviet system has been gone for three decades, I don't see why we would care to compare the current system to the effects of a system operating in a vastly different economic and political reality, more than 30 years ago.
> Compared to an imagined perfect system, it has many flaws, but that's how the real world is.
Well sure, that's a truism. That doesn't preclude the existence of realistic more effective or healthy systems.
Some metrics I care about are income equality, homelessness, school shootings, level of education. What are the metrics you care about that you see improving?
> Compared with the Soviet system, that makes it vastly superior.
I'm sure it's also superior to the feudal system and hunter-gatherer systems. The Soviet system has been gone for three decades, I don't see why we would care to compare the current system to the effects of a system operating in a vastly different economic and political reality, more than 30 years ago.
> Compared to an imagined perfect system, it has many flaws, but that's how the real world is.
Well sure, that's a truism. That doesn't preclude the existence of realistic more effective or healthy systems.