Show me another system that has provided more economic mobility than the capitalist system.

I think you equate poor with helpless. I left home at 16 with nothing - only the clothes on my back. I paid for my own education and my own home by working hard and not being a lazy shit.

The problem today isn't the economic system - it's the legions of youth that have been raised by middle class boomers who think that wealth just falls from the sky the second they graduate.

Life is about choices and responsibility. If you make poor choices and are irresponsible, you suffer the results.

If you listen to the rhetoric of the progressives you would think that this was the hardest time to be alive. It's quite the opposite, even with the shit going on today.