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Salomé Sibonex's avatar

I don't agree that capitalism is a system of oppression that disenfranchise the most vulnerable; most historical evidence shows that centrally planned economies and feudalism created more vulnerability. The most vulnerable often are such because they lack the economic freedom capitalism provides, so they're dependent on the state or corrupt leaders instead of being able to control their own lives by supporting themselves.

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Mark Johnson's avatar

The irreconcilable flaw with all known alternatives to capitalism is that those alternatives seek to force productive people to support unproductive people involuntarily, and unproductive people given unlimited support tend to remain unproductive and a drain on productive people. Eventually the unproductive become a large enough burden to collapse the system, or the productive rebel against being forced to do something against their will and collapse the system.

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