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Capitalism generates inequality.
I think that’s absolutely unquestionable.
However, it can generate a lot or little inequality.
Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
generates a lot of inequality,
capitalism in Sweden generates little inequality.
So, the first thing is to know that’s not something absolute.
We know that behind the economy, in a capitalist system,
there will be inequality,
that some people will have more money,
a higher income, more opportunities, more education, than others,
this is a fact of capitalist economy.
But it can be a lot, or it can be little.
We also know that, it definitely isn’t…
this is also unquestionable.
Now, the third problem
is if there is an alternative.
Until 1989, we thought there was.
But the fact is that there isn’t.
the alternative that the world has dreamed of for 150 years
or 141 years since 1848
and the emerging of the manifest of the communist party of Marx,
this alternative ceased to exist,
it only exist as an aberrant anachronism in Cuba and Korea,
because China is not like that,
Vietnam is not like that, etc. They are another thing.
Well, that is also an unquestionable reality.
So, what do I think we should do?
We should choose, inside capitalism,
the policies, the models, the outlines
that maximally reduce inequality and poverty.
e know that’s possible.
What we don’t know is how long it can take
in countries like the ones in Latin America. We don’t know that.
We know by cities.
There are areas in Latin America
that are areas we could call the first world of the poor.
In Mexico, the north.
Colombia, some areas in Medellin.
Some areas in Costa Rica, in Panama.
No Brazil, clearly the state of Sao Paulo,
maybe the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, etc.
We know there are areas in Chile that more and more look like
a poor first world, not like Sweden, Germany, but
like Portugal, Greece, this kind of area, Poland...
Well, so it’s possible.
But it takes time, lots of time.