Capitalism best facilitates industry, innovation, and commerce.

To be fair to Ford, the only vehicles of theirs that I’d consider buying would be a Mustang or an F-150 when my mid-life crisis hits.

Easily my top gaming moment of the year so far. Kudos to the Sony marketing team for not including them at all in advertising, that’s a level of self-control that I wish more publishers would have.

I don’t want those people ignored, but in serving their interests you need to be very careful that you don’t upset the rest of the picture.

I think your beret is on too tight. Are in class now, or...?

How Venezuela doing these days?

How is that idiotic?

So...what is your argument? That wealth and poverty don’t exist?

I...what? Food in our capitalist society is plentiful to the point where the poor have more to worry about from obesity than starvation.

Sick burn bro.

And in both China and Russia there is significant evidence that adoption of free market reforms drastically improved the quality of life for basically everyone.

The fear, I think, is that the social safety net becomes so robust that it discourages work. Another commetn mentioned that the problem was high costs for retraining, and it strikes me that instead of making the net more comfortable, why not make retraining easier?

Average lifespan, infant mortality, literacy rates...there are plenty of statistics that are more fundamental to human development that have directly benefited from the spread of capitalism. Not to trivialize anything you mentioned, but I do think you’re not showing the whole story.

OK, I can get behind that thinking. But it seems that you need less of a social safety net, and more of a robust skills training infrastructure.

You’re basically upending personal property ownership, which doesn’t strike me as too far removed from anarchy.

...Wealth and poverty do not exist without capitalism?

I think your error is that you presume these losers (for lack of a better term) remain losers forever. That’s not really true. People who are displaced find other means of work, and if they can’t enjoy massive wealth, they can work so that their children can live better than they did.

To be fair, the cycle of winners and losers in capitalism has also resulted in the net positive growth of per capita human wealth and the movement of hundreds of millions out of poverty.

I think George Washington did other stuff too, but I’m not a historician.

Show me the lie.