Capitalism needs to be tempered with morality. Without it, we start looking at dead soldiers and victims of illegal immigrant crimes as little more than collateral damage.
Drug runners can be seen as pure capitalists without morality. Anything that gets in the way of them making a buck, dies.
Capitalism is what made this country great but when morality is removed it always results in collapse.
You are correct! if you look at it on the extreme meter, we are leaning heavily toward collapse. This anything goes society, Im a victim too, if he can do it so can I attitude has brought us to this point. Its going to be a battle to try and get us back to center.
Actually free enterprise made the country great. Capitalism wasn’t even a common word until William Makepeace Thackeray used it in one of his novels in the late 1800s.
The most vociferous defenders of capitalism on this forum also support the global socialist system called “free trade”, and in that context capitalism is just a tool to promote communism. The proof is all the communist dictators who are now among the richest men on earth, due to “free trade”.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.