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No one claimed that. Can you do better than argue against a strawman?


You’re the one arguing that capitalism isn’t the problem when it pretty clearly is.

You can’t patch a fundamentally failed system.


I said a lack of regulation around businesses was the problem, and you misrepresented my point, claiming I said capitalism was the best thing ever. Hence the strawman.

The claim that capitalism is fundamentally failed is one that needs support, given that it is capitalist countries that have the highest quality of life and are highest on the happiness indices.


Please learn about the failures of regulation during the 20th century and how most regulations in the US got clawed away through time. Please learn about regulatory capture and also learn about the failures of NHS and the Canadian health care systems due to the pressures put on them by capitalist system.


Specific failures in the past are failures in the specific ways capitalism was implemented.

You wouldn't use past failed examples of socialism to argue socialism is fundamentally flawed, would you?

I understand you disagree with me and may be dismissive of my position, but let's try to assume good faith and keep this civil, please? We may end up finding we agree more than disagree.




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