Share this Story: The Capitalist Manifesto: How many millions of people escaped poverty, lived longer and got TVThe Capitalist Manifesto: How many millions of people escaped poverty, lived longer and got TV Capitalism gets bad press, but it has changed the world for the better more than all the wars, revolutions and revolts in historyArticle content Capitalism has created more prosperity and progress for more people than any system in human history. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Capitalism would soon be practised on a scale hither-to unimagined. Article content Still, life expectancy in the U.S. rose to 47 years in 1900, an increase of 10 years from 1800. Article content “It was above all as consumer societies that the Soviet Union and its satellites had failed,” he wrote.

Source: National Post December 13, 2021 14:41 UTC