throwing in all these requirements leaves you with a definition of capitalism that pretty tightly matches the system we have right now. This is my main issue wi

throwing in all these requirements leaves you with a definition of capitalism that pretty tightly matches the system we have right now. This is my main issue with criticisms of capitalism - they (rightly) criticise the system we live with right now but instead of looking into individual rules, entities and interactions that cause the problems, we declare that (to quote the comment I objected to) "it's not clear [...] that one can have the baby without it spoiling the bathwater.". It's terribly reductionist to take a complex interlocking system and say "it's not working, we need to get rid of it!" because chances are that the problems could be fixed within the system itself. Or in software terms, I think our current form of capitalism is in need of refactoring, not rejecting as fundamentally broken.