Really-existing communism is bad too. I think worse than really-existing capitalism as it had to pass through a dictatorship stage to be realised, and dictators

Really-existing communism is bad too. I think worse than really-existing capitalism as it had to pass through a dictatorship stage to be realised, and dictatorships are extremely hard to renounce when formed. What I was saying was a defence of the fundamental economic model of capitalism, not a criticism of it. > we are all suddenly better people? Yes. People are largely ethical products of situations they find themselves in. Reduce the number of opportunities for bad behaviour and you get Good People. unaccountable systems of power are the recurring situations causing bad-behaviour here. A healthy democratic capitalism aligns the interests of those power with the people. So that capital owners do not seize control. "Capital" is not capitalist. It is anti-capitalist, wanting to monopolize and dictate.