Ok, that makes sense. A key part of capitalism is that businesses must be held accountable when they are negligent or damage private/public property.
If by capitalism you mean the free market, then capitalism is not a moral system. It is amoral. It is just natural and doesn’t care if the $1000 you made is from a life saving invention or trafficking in kiddie porn.
Communism and all its derivatives is a moral system. So are Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc. It’s a lie to compare the free market to some moral system. It’s apples and oranges. Why America is so great is that it combined the free market with Christian morality.
Business accountability in America is a function of that morality. There is nothing about capitalism/the free market that would lead to business accountability unless the consumers demanded it.
In capitalism the consumer is king. In Christianity Christ is.
BTW, I bought your American history series along with the companion book and am looking forward to reading it.
“Ok, that makes sense. A key part of capitalism is that businesses must be held accountable when they are negligent or damage private/public property.”
Only if they actually do something wrong should they be held accountable and not when it is whimsically presumed they
will or might. Anything involving the man made global
warming hoax is an example of whimsical.