Saving Capitalism - Hard Work Required!
It feels that our nation is splitting apart. While many folks are in the "middle", the voices that are often the loudest are those from either the far left who unabashedly proclaim that capitalism is evil, or those on the far right who express palpable fear that the Marxists and Socialists are coming to take away their way of life. As is the case for most "issues", reality slices in the middle. But until the good folks of our nation embrace two principles, the tearing of our nation's fabric will continue. Principle One: Capitalism is astoundingly powerful. The power of the market to allocate resources is breathtaking. Principle Two: Capitalism without restraint leads to horrible inequality and the system eventually crushes itself. Communism requires a squashing of human hopes, innovation, and oppression (or murder). I seriously doubt that those who proclaim capitalism as evil would actually want to live in a communist system. The lore of goofy Sov