> capitalism has served its purpose of seeding the economy ages ago, and now we are 'over the hump' so to speak as we watch wealth concentrate further and its e

> capitalism has served its purpose of seeding the economy ages ago, and now we are 'over the hump' so to speak as we watch wealth concentrate further and its effects. I think capitalism as a system is capable of serving the general public. The bigger problem has been that every Republican administration in my lifetime has passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy and both parties have allowed significant consolidation while also falling all over themselves to bail out big business whenever they got in trouble (often due to their own irresponsibility) while wagging their fingers at regular people suffering the downstream effects.