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Capitalism is the best thing that's ever happened to humanity. The author's ideological bias gets in the way of understanding.

• auserperson 9y ago
  anyone who downvoted this can go fuck themselves.
• s73ver_ 9y ago
  That doesn't mean it's not also bad for large swaths of humanity.
• monsieurgaufre 9y ago
  Your own is as well. You make a strong claim without proving it.
• jeffdavis 9y ago
  That's probably true over the span of time where what we needed most was capital investment. I think there's a fair question about whether we are changing modes. "Capital" itself is changing in nature -- not so much about big machines and mass production any more.
• cujic9 9y ago
  It has certainly enabled more humans to exist. It has created way better conditions for many of those humans. And it has created unimaginable suffering for just as many humans. I wouldn't get rid of capitalism, but I certainly wouldn't give it a superlative. It's kind of like saying that domestication is the best thing that has happened to chickens, cause look how many more of them there are, and wow some of them live on a free range.