Post #52388
2025-12-11 12:16 UTC
Blaming capitalism because doing a bad thing led to bad results is like blaming a recipe for being bad when you swap the eggs for cottage cheese. When you let companies make rules, that’s government intervention.
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@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2025-12-11 12:54
“that’s not real capitalism” seems to be the new “that’s not real communism”. Capitalism gave unscrupulous people the power to do bad things. It is ignorant to try to absolve capitalism of this. Capitalism is a tool to concentrate wealth and power, it is absolutely shocked Pikachu when those people use that wealth and power to influence the government to do bad things. You’re claiming both that the government is the problem for not stopping people from doing bad things, and also you’re saying that the Chicago school was right for pressuring the government to remove their ability to stop people from doing bad things.