It actually also cannot be countered period. We’ve been on damage control for years. Every effort now will save lives later but there is no avoiding the harm that has been done.

We should demand the death penalty for billionaires. They’ll counter-offer us if we’re loud enough.

reigning in

ENDING it. “reigning it in” will just push the problem down the line (and back into just minorities’ hands).

meaning we just get a new deal all over again and nothing fundamentally changes.

Yes let’s get rid of “corporate capitalism” and make way for all of the other kinds

Its too late, another man falls down.

Capitalism is uniquely difficult to put a handle on, but the non capitalist superpowers are chugging gas just the same. This isn’t a problem of capitalism, but greed, and every drop denies blame for the flood.

Capitalism is never a helpful word to use in any context. Like all “isms”, it can be reduced practically to the supremacy of capital, corporatism, oligarchism, and market corruption to maximize the supremacy.

Unlike Adam Smith’s origin of free and fair markets, the problem with the practical modern definition is the protection of incumbent oligarchy.

Global warming can be solved through markets. Carbon taxes are a market mechanism. Green energy is the cheapest energy and the best energy investment. When weapons and oil oligarchs own the government and media, they can make you prioritize war, energy dominance, transgender ickyness, and Israel’s “right to exist” as a higher priority than human sustainability.

This “structural communism for the rich” gets called capitalism by all sides, even when it is far removed from free market competition.