capitalism

We have in many ways reached the end of capitalism, before capitalism as a system breaks apart.

It's actually the definition of how capitalism can improve quality of life for everyone, is it not?

Please, do better than putting up straw men, especially the ridiculous false choice between Capitalism and dictatorship.

Pure capitalism is just as impossible as pure socialism, due to the exact same moral hazards.

Another instance of opportunistic capitalism bastardizing a very pleasant concept and lifestyle like communalism and turning into unrecognizable monster of itself.

It means that once wages are pushed down enough - there is no room for labour to increase demand and thus generate growth ( the thing that drives capitalism ).

This offsets one on the main weaknesses of capitalism, that capital keeps concentrating.

A large number (majority?) of people who are proponents for american-style capitalism, advocating for less government intervention, are from big universities around the U.

Well, in Germany we call the system we're using 'social market economy' and it does not aspire to be pure capitalism.

I'm surprised that HN hasn't applied some version of the standard critique of Capitalism already.

This is extremely unlikely under the current political system (capitalism).

Communities take care of their members, which reduces their dependence on the economy, which slows economic growth, which is one of the core goals of capitalism.

It asks "do you mean unbridled capitalism?" and then gives me only results for unbridled capitalism.

Capitalism doesn't mean "pay your employees out according to some made-up scheme of who's-worth-what," though the weird calvinist pseudo-capitalism we love in the U.

They wouldn't hire you otherwise" This is how capitalism works.

I can't remember them all (last time I read this stuff was Philosophy 101, Feudalism was probably one of them), but currently we are on "Democracy/Capitalism".

Capitalism worked out pretty great for much of Western Civilization.

If it fails, perhaps it's a failed experiment in Capitalism?

Capitalism systematically makes humans into cogs in a machine.