[quote=CA renter]
I don’t have too much of a problem with capitalism, if only we could find an actual example in the real world that is devoid of corruption and monopolies that eventually lead to the implosion of an economy, with the poor being made to suffer for the benefit of the wealthy. This is where we stand today, unfortunately.[/quote]
Corruption, crises, monopolies and cartels are a feature not an aberration. Or rather a systemic tendency – with wealth concentration and accumulation as the driver of these features. People can go round and round about regulations being good, bad, too much too or too little as reasons for these issues(and astute observers and skilled writers can be, on some level, correct about many interpretations) but the common denominator is always accumulation of capital. Being that is the object of the *game* we all play, it is heretical to shine a light on that as cause. Actually, regulation is often a matter of whom does it benefit, rather than, is it good or bad. Now, you will not find much regulation, or at least major regulation, over the past few decades that does not support wealth accumulation to the people that are most influential in crafting said regulation. Rising tides lift all ships, don’t you know
