Ok. > That the capitalist engine achieves growth as well as it does because its relentless competition destroys old structures and methods, thus allowing more

Ok. > That the capitalist engine achieves growth as well as it does because its relentless competition destroys old structures and methods, thus allowing more efficient structures and methods to rise in their place, Those of us in the USA are clearly not getting the competition and creative destruction starting in January. We're clearly getting some form of merchantilism.