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Sometimes I feel despair, but occasionally I feel hope for the future :)
According to a poll from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), younger people are against capitalism.
2000 people aged 16-34 took the poll in earlier in 2021.
67% said they'd like to live in a socialist economic system.
75% said climate change is a capitalist problem.
78% blame capitalism for the housing crisis.
72% support re-nationalising energy, water, railways etc.
72% believe the private sector puts the NHS at risk.
75% say socialism is a good idea, but has been done badly causing it to fail in the past.
They had the following word associations with "socialism": "workers", "public", "equal" and "fair". and they equated "capitalism" with: "exploitative", "unfair", "the rich" and "corporations".
The data also indicates that this isn't just the "left-wing phase" that a lot of younger people go through.
So, fingers crossed for the future. I just hope that the Conservatives don't break the country too much more before it's too late to fix.
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