Capitalism is the greatest economic system ever devised to provide the most benefits for the most people. Unfortunately, there is still a great deal of misery in our country. If you work hard you deserve the fruits of your labor, but I have to say there is something wrong with such great wealth in the hands of so few. No, I’m not complaining about the 1%, but maybe some tweaking needs to be done when you have people like this in the same country with someone controlling 80 billion in assets.
My post was in response to the above. I didn’t word it too well. But, yes those details are in the article. But I was responding to someone saying how something is off when someone has 80 billion in assets but on the other hand, we have homeless people. This homeless girl clearly has problems, and her problems have nothing to do with capitalism or the structure of our economy. That’s the point I was getting at , but didn’t express it too well.
her issues are largely self inflicted.
Not every case is the same. We have plenty of homeless who just couldn’t cope. Maybe they made a bad decision (as opposed to one after another) but the thought of hanging someone out to dry for a wrong turn , not a felony, seems un American.
I agree with Doug. The system may be the best but it isn’t one size fits all.