Does time exist if there is no sentinent being there to observe its passage?
Does the concept of time exist if there is no one there to observe it’s passage?
The concept of capitalism does exist if there are no participants.
My original point is that Newt misframed his argument in seeking ethical capitalism, when it is ethical people that are necessary for such a choice to be made regarding a neutral concept, and in so doing, he is undermining the engine of freedom, and he is certainly smart enough to be able to make this distinction.
This is an intentional misframing, it is an unethical choice.
The concept of capitalism does exist if there are no participants.
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How can a “concept” that can exist without participants and is “neutral” by your definition-— possibly enter the universe of ethics? Under such a hypothesis, how can such a “concept” drive anything- it existing solely as a conceptualization?