For some reason they still exist in Israel (that is AFAIK, I don’t go to shopping centers that much). And I think this was before the closure

Sure I’m with you on that one mate. Just a shitty year, it will pass

Depends. For my country we were on the verge on a civil war, and then a massacre started a real outwards war… Guess the silver lining is we won’t have a civil war anytime soon…

You guys are just on 4th?

Capitalism is based around the possibility of financial and social mobility and uncontrolled market. The concentration we see today goes against this idea. I’m about to respond my original conclusion about socialism in another comment, but I start to think we went too large scale here too, and some balancing is needed.

That’s not socialism, that’s a country with social services. I’ve seen multiple time when people from Scandinavia were offended when their country was called “socialist” - they are not. The economy is capitalist but the country offers strong social services.

Another funny thing - when reading about the us you realizer that it’s just a broken market and snowballed problems. For example - the government invests more than any other country (per capita) in the health sector. The thing is it got out of hand.