"Is the market economy a boon to the proletariat of the world"?
I just saw that in the comment section of my article, a fan wrote such a comment, saying that "the market economy is the greatest gospel for the proletariat in the world." I couldn't help but be a little stunned when I read such a comment. Suffice it to say that if the market economy can become the greatest gospel to the proletariat in the world, is it still necessary for the proletariat to rise up against the bourgeoisie?
Yes, almost all countries in the world now practice a market economy, so is the market economy as good for the proletariat of the whole world as this friend said?
Take a look at the "2019 Global and China Wealth Gap Analysis Report" published by Huajing Intelligence Network on December 10, 2019, which says that since the 2008 financial crisis, global private wealth has been growing steadily. In 2018, global private wealth totaled $204 trillion, up 26% from 10 years ago.
The report says data show that the wealth of the world's wealthy increased by $2.5 billion a day in 2018, and that the richest 26 people held as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people, or 50 percent of the global population, combined.
The richest 1% of the population in each country holds more than 20% of the total wealth of society.
In capitalist countries, on one side there is a country where a few people are rich, and on the other side there is an army of "unemployed", because unemployed and low-wage workers are unable to provide a profitable market, thus limiting the production of consumer goods, causing a huge economic depression.
The solution is often to increase productivity due to technological progress, but technological progress often leads to more unemployment, rather than reducing the burden of work for all, and the unlimited competition of all leads to huge waste of labor and makes life miserable for everyone. This is the result of the market economy in the capitalist countries. Can such a situation be said to be the greatest boon to the proletariat in the world?
