If this is so, then pray tell: why is it that the poorest of the poor in predominantly the western world, where capitalism thrives, are so much better off than the poorest of the poor in countries where socialism/communism etc is practiced? Indeed they are sometimes better off than even middle class if it exists in those countries)…think Venezuela, Cuba. also why is it that people the world over flee from these socialist/communist countries and flock enmasse to these bastions of evil capitalism, sometimes at the peril of their very lives?