> For a critique to be of any use you must propose a valid, better alternative It's always nicer when critiques come with solutions, but a critique is valid i

> For a critique to be of any use you must propose a valid, better alternative It's always nicer when critiques come with solutions, but a critique is valid if all it does is correctly point out an undesirable state of affairs, because recognizing and articulating problems clearly is an important initial step in ameliorating them, including actually coming up with any of those alternatives. > Even if he actually criticized Capitalism, concluding "hence Capitalism is bad" The article doesn't seem to argue either "Capitalism is bad" or "Adam Smith thought Capitalism was bad." It does seem to argue "Adam Smith thought Mercantalism was bad" and "Adam Smith's ideas seem to be poorly represented in popular thought, and some of his actual ideas may be only situationally applicable." [Clippy: You seem to be mounting an ideological defense of whatever you believe Capitalism to be, would you like help with that?]