Capitalism Wins

FOLLOW us!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prageru
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prageru
Instagram: https://instagram.com/prageru/

SUBSCRIBE so you never miss a new video! https://www.prageru.com/join/

To view the script, sources, quiz, visit https://www.prageru.com/video/capitalism-wins

Join PragerU’s text list to have these videos, free merchandise giveaways, and breaking announcements sent directly to your phone! https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageru

Do you shop on Amazon? Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. Same great products. Same low price. Shopping made meaningful.

SHOP!
Love PragerU? Now you can wear PragerU merchandise! Visit our store today! https://shop.prageru.com/

Script:

There are many in the West — including many who should know better — who find it difficult, unpopular, or just plain embarrassing to defend capitalism.

I take the opposite view.

We should double down on it.

For a very simple reason:

It remains not just the best, but the only, chance for the least fortunate in the world to make life better for themselves and their children.

And the more we see of capitalism’s rival, socialism, the more proof we have that capitalism is the way we want to go.

I’ve seen this over and over again: from my own childhood, to my time as governor of South Carolina, to most recently – and most dramatically – during my tenure as US Ambassador to the United Nations.

I grew up in South Carolina as the daughter of Indian immigrants. My mom started a small shop selling clothes and gifts that grew into a successful business. She showed my brothers, my sister, and me what it meant to live the American dream. As my mother’s story so vividly illustrates, America is a country where people can find jobs that match their talents and passions. 

Some Americans take this for granted. The rest of the world envies it. 

As governor of South Carolina, I marveled at capitalism’s power to improve lives. Our pro free-market policies helped bring in more than $20 billion in investment and created jobs in every county of the state. Those jobs provide dignity and purpose. And as I often say, when you give a person a job, you take care of a family. 

During my time as the US ambassador to the U.N., I was reminded that not every country enjoys the same freedom and prosperity as America. More than 1 and a half billion people still suffer under socialist regimes.

In 2018, I stood on the Simón Bolívar Bridge at the border of Venezuela and Colombia. I watched thousands of Venezuelans cross into Colombia for the only meal they might have that day. I held a beautiful baby girl. Her mother told me all she wanted for her daughter was a future of freedom. They were one of millions of Venezuelan families whose lives have been destroyed by her country’s socialist policies.

So, imagine my dismay to find that socialism has become trendy here in America.

American socialists claim they seek a more enlightened socialism, like the one found in Scandinavian countries. But those countries are not socialist. They are capitalist and offer large welfare benefits. But, ironically, to make their system work they’ve had to repeatedly slash their corporate tax rates. Denmark has cut its corporate rate by more than half since the 1990s. Other democracies, including Israel, India, and the U.K., experimented with socialism, only to abandon it — and only then did they thrive.

The results are in: socialism — however you want to define it — has failed everywhere it’s been tried. A handful of elites sitting in a government office can never outthink millions of business owners and consumers making millions of individual choices every moment of every day. You’d think we’d have gotten the message by now. 

An entire generation of American adults are too young to remember the suffering socialism caused during the last century. Instead of teaching students to reject our country’s history and founding ideals, schools should have a required class on the history and collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Young people at least have the excuse of being miseducated, but what does one say about corporate CEOs who give in to social trends rather than standing up for a system that their own businesses and workers depend on?

For the complete script visit https://www.prageru.com/video/capitalism-wins