Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

I lived in socialists country and people had the same problems but nobody talked about them publicly. In capitalism you can anything even blame it for everything, you could never do it under socialism.

That's fine for an individual transaction, or even a small group of parties. But as a basis for an economy with millions of people in disparate financial and social situations, it clearly isn't working perfectly, or even at all, for many people.

Exactly. Look at Jeffrey #Epstein, very savvy about capitalism. Those girls weren’t physically forced to do anything. They were persuaded it was to their ‘mutual’ benefit. Power differentials (age, education, income) don’t enter into it. The magic dust of capitalism absolves all

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Socialism is people controlled markets.

Capitalism has us living a higher standard today in Western Civilization that at any time or place in human existence. The problems mentioned are worse the poorer one is.

Capitalism does not need existential insecurity for it to function properly.

He's a slave? No voluntary choice at all about where to work? No dollar votes about what to consume or not? Poor, poor man.

When I first heard the big corporations arguments, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs were still in college. Nether companies about to rule the world were ITT, IBM, GM, and US Steel.

With government-sponsored corporations, capitalism is not a fair playing ground for businesses. Only mutually beneficial, in this particular instance, for the corporation and government. This is not fair trade capitalism by the people and for the people.

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The point is well taken though. Capitalism is malfunctioning right now, the most obvious symptom being income inequality. It behooves all of us capitalists to fix it to head off something much worse replacing it. See Sanders, Bernie.