If you like this, check out Edward Tufte’s books too! The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is a fantastic read with some good history about these same guys, and it has some really well-explained guidance for building informational visuals. It even takes some shots at publications for misleading folks through shitty graphics. It’s some great nerd reading.

All drugs should be legal and regulated.

Either Israel is the meth capital of the middle east or they're just a surveillance state cracking down on it. Would be somewhat ironic if Iran's failed crops were because their Ammonia was going to this.

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.

LOL Paraguay, that one is hard to believe, but probably most of the Chinese trade isn't in the official figures... as long as I can remember, Paraguay has been known by its neighbors for being a hub for cheap Chinese knockoff products. It's a huge market, and they have been the local supplier to cheap stores across the whole region, and I know that well because I worked in Ciudad del Este as a fall guy in my teenage years. And the stuff is cheap for being tax-free, and it's tax-free because it's contraband :)

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.

losing faith in capitalism realizing and coming to terms that capitalism is broken and was the real scam all along

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

Nope, theoretically true but not the least bit feasible in reality. My sample could at best represent my 160k people city, where 80% voted for our local Mussolini, not my 200m people country, which has wide regional differences (and didn't elect the local Mussolini, even though my city and some entire states would have)... imagine India, with almost 1.5b people, and those interviews can't possibly have the necessary geographical and social scope in countries that size with such an insignificantly small sample... what's their methodology? Random pop-ups on social media? You already excluded a huge chunk of the population that doesn't use social media at all, and depending on the social media, you just made an age cut as well, your sample is no longer random but only representing a certain demographic. Was it people standing in a big city interviewing passersby? Time and location will taint the results and, again, the geographical scope is insignificant. Random phone calls? Well-informed people have their numbers on "do-not-disturb" lists (a public service), don't answer random questions from strangers on the phone, etc, etc, so your sample is not random enough anymore because a demographic group won't be represented in it, etc, etc.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

Japan, baby, what are you doing?

Thats actually pretty strong for the US because of the propaganda

Thats tight as fuck

Where do you think our electronics, machinery and alloys come from?

Trump is the US version of the USSR leadership post Stalin. He is collapsing what was built, impressive growth, however amorally it was achieved.

Animation please

Is there some article or source post I can read? Very curious how we (India) trade more with China over US considering China is practically enemy number 2 for us after Pakistan

Kind of, I suppose. This is an angle I became aware of during the US-EU dick measuring... uh, I mean the tarrifs conflict: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4rd71411ko

Sounds plausible. So... people don't trade with the US. They just subscribe to us?