> Whatever the fantasy system you have in mind that lacks this feature is, it's not capitalism, that name's already been taken for the system in which this is a

> Whatever the fantasy system you have in mind that lacks this feature is, it's not capitalism, that name's already been taken for the system in which this is a central problem. Anymore, the vast majority of times people say "capitalist system", I believe they mean "market economy". Because of this, although I would agree that the letter of what OP was false (capitalism [a term coined by Marx] does not include corporate/government corruption), his intent is true as soon as you replace "capitalism" with "market economy", and because of this, discrediting his point that people bash market economies based on the corruption that ought to be excluded from them seems intellectually disingenuous.