re: #71 GunstarGreen

Capitalism was never designed

This is actually the most important bit. Capitalism is an evolutionary thing, or rather, capitalism rewards behavior in a ‘selecting for the fittest’ fashion, and the fittest aren’t those that produce the most wealth, it’s whatever garners the most money. The two are only incidentally related.

As much as they may like to say they like Capitalism, Republicans do not. They are not capitalists, they are corporatists. And the corporate market is not a free market; it does not behave as a free market does. A free market cannot afford to abuse its customers because there are readily-available alternatives. A corporatist market can and does abuse its customers because they really don’t have much choice in the matter.

This bit is absolutely true, though a real free market would also be horrific. But corporatism is the biggest current problem we’ve got, absolutely. And the founding fathers foresaw it, too.