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Lots of people on Lemmy forget that the choice between Capitalism and Socialism isn't binary. Country picks individual policies that are capitalist or socialist in nature. All of the modern countries are a combination of both. Even USA has certain socialist policies. Most of Europe is roughly equally capitalist and socialist.
It's just making a character build and picking perks. Capitalist policies aren't bad (for the general public) by default. Depending on how and which ones are implemented, they can be beneficial to everybody.
The US has a bunch of socialist policies, it's just that the people who complain about socialism don't know what it means.
The US doesn't have any socialist policies.
But when government has social programs it's socialism. It's in the name!
I don't think this needs a /s, but the world doesn't fucking make any sense.