“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Winston Churchill
The same may be said, it seems to me, about capitalism. All well and good to say that Americans are morally bankrupt and that capitalism is the cause. But that doesn’t get us anywhere. Given the problems of scalability when there are 6 billion mouths to feed we must be very careful about any proposed cure, lest we through the baby out with the bathwater.