Is there something unethical about capitalism such that it needs to be qualified by the word ethical?
Capitalism is like a vehicle or a gun, which have no ethics, good or bad. The guy controlling either one, on the other hand ...
Capitalism is ethical when the guy using it adheres to the "Christian system," as one of the Founder's put it.
John Quincy Adams said: "The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal code as well as a moral and religious code ...."
Like everything else in human civilization, capitalism thrives when people adhere and adapt their behaviors to that Judeo-Christian code. Capitalism, like everything else in human civilization, decays and self-destructs when that code is ignored. It's just like evolution, which, far from being "survival of the most ruthless," actually comes down to: Adapt or perish.
In capitalism like everything else, we adapt to the word of God ... or perish, as countless barbarian, heathen civilizations have perished before now.
Indeed. Capitalism is but a tool, and it is the human user that is either ethical or unethical.
It is ethical human beings that Newt is seeking, but he has misframed his argument, and he is smart enough to know better, and, in fact, he does know better.
So, why is Newt misframing this argument and attacking one of the primary tools that drives the freedom of America, when he knows that it is the corruption of man that is driving our fall?
I find this highly problematic.