"as it exists today."
Economic policy is just the engine that moves the economy. The real problem runs deeper. Greedy men love that the socialism vs capitalism debate gets so much attention.
You have to consider that they have to ask this question in the most neutral way to get the most accurate responses. If they tried schooling the people who think reality is fucked, but are not full on socialist (yet), that shit never works. And would skew the responses.
Just FYI these data come from the pre-pandemic era, the latest “barometer“ report by the same people can be found here: https://www.edelman.com/trust/2026/trust-barometer
Japan, baby, what are you doing?
This data is a few years old so we can already answer that: they crashed their economy by not raising inflation rates after COVID, then elected a woman who wants to be the next Margaret Thatcher. The love of capitalism is fucking them quite hard right now, lol
Sure, France keeps on reelecting an ultracapitalist nazi-allied banker but they are against capitalism.
I mean, at the same time Macron got elected by like 10% of the population so I guess it still works.
Thats actually pretty strong for the US because of the propaganda
All countries with hardly any regulation of industry at all. Turns out economic systems don’t matter if there isn’t something to stop bad actors.
All these countries have problems with long streaks of bad governance. They would suffer the same if not worse fates under an economic system where only the government drove economic growth.
Thats higher numbers than I thought there would be in all the countries mentioned. I guess the question asks if people are happy with capitalism in its current state. That must include a whole bunch of people who think their country needs even more capitalism.
~~losing faith in capitalism~~ realizing and coming to terms that capitalism is broken and was the real scam all along
34k people in 28 countries? About 1.2k per country? Even if it actually means 34k per country, the sample is so ridiculously small that this statistic accounts for nothing. I can assure you if I interview 1.2k people on the main street of my city in Brazil I will get a very very different number, with the vast majority not even understanding the question.
It all boils down on how representative for the entire population the participants of the statistics are chosen: location, age, gender, education, job, …
If your sample is a sufficiently random representative of the population, there won't be a difference between 1,200 people and 12,000,000 people.
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