volodymyr

The gold standard are urainum mines. Lead are for those with good behavior.

As someone who grew up with soviet animation I’d say it was pretty high quality but also extremely limited in quantity and diversity. Also it was not infrequently associted with dissidents.

I would even say it is one of the key components of everything we consider life. On the other hand, other components include selflesness, compassion and sacrifice. Denying and of these features leads to disfunctional systems

Capitalism builds on competetion but favors behavior which eliminates competitors. This inner tension of capitalism makes it easily degrade into an authoritharian system. But it does not make it the same as one. Regulation is needed to maintain fair competetion which sounds paradoxical but is also a tension in the capitalism as such.

Democracies struggle with capitalism but they struggle much more with planned state. Struggle is in the nature of free agents of democracy, so it does not have to suggest incompatibility.

Probably, but they could also just be evil. Some people actually want things which are not compatible with what many would consider fair.