Warp schrieb:
>>>> people who even think capitalism is the answer to the economic crisis... >_<
>>>   I'm not exactly sure why it wouldn't be.
> 
>> Maybe because it's exactly this liberal capitalism that got us to where 
>> we're at right now??
> 
>   It's also what got us with free health care, hospitals, free education and
> schools, public libraries, free roads for anyone to use, and all this while
> maintaining basic human rights and freedom. Well, in most capitalist countries
> at least.

Free <whatever> is /definitely not/ a capitalism invention. That's all 
non-capitalist "add-ons".

Pure capitalism leads to toll roads instead; private schools; health 
care for people who can pay for it; etc.

Capitalism does not care about human rights or freedom either. It 
appears to have less need of suppressing them than other economic 
models, but it has no interest in encouraging them either. Well, aside 
from the freedom to sell and buy whatever you want.

Free speech? Free press? Why should capitalism want that? 
Environmentalist movements are a pain in the neck, and likewise 
newspapers revealing what companies don't want their customers to know.

As I said: Capitalism needs to be offset by some regulatory influences. 
It is, in the so-called 1st world countries, but sometimes that 
regulatory influence is lacking. Like in the financial sector in recent 
years. To think that having even /more/ capitalism and /less/ regulation 
would help fix economy is an idea that appears particularly stupid to me.

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