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If some people are getting handouts or bailouts, it's not capitalism. Capitalism requires an even monetary playing field.

• ben_w 4y ago
  > Capitalism requires an even monetary playing field. Almost everyone — capitalist, communist, anarchist — believes in an even playing field. Half the disagreement is about what "even" (or "fair") means. This is also why people throw the exact same criticisms in the opposite direction, at all the attempts at communism over the years: "it's not real communism because $foo, it was really just state-capitalism", which often seems to me to be a criticism of governments taking the "wrong" idea of fairness rather than connecting with the underlying social/economic presumptions backed into The Communist Manifesto. (Personal opinion: would be nice if someone can take the points that Adam Smith and Karl Marx were observing about human nature, update with John Nash game theory, and make a new economic system that doesn't turn humans into Spherical Socio-Economic Units in a vacuum like Capitalism and Communism both ended up doing: neither money nor community are the be-all and end-all of human motivation).