capitalism has its place

When you want to buy a new television, water heater or automobile, you have a choice. You can choose from the Ferrari, Cadillac, or Toyota. But when it comes to healthcare, credit, or education, consumer choice is pre-limited. Anyone who decides it is necessary for them, can choose to make a Ferrari their first car choice. If they didn't happen to be born into particular wealth, it might take them significantly longer to realize this need. But it is not beyond realization.

However all the hard work and drive in the world will never bring malignant or predatory systems into sustainability. No one fighting cancer has the ability to also fight into higher tax brackets. Often their illness is the result of some corporate malfeasance. If your credit struggle is the result of some predatory banking practice, you can bet the bank has long ago paid their "fine" or got their bailout, and absolutely nothing has been done to ensure your future. Maybe you are smart, but you have to be dumb enough to sell your self into debt encumbered servitude to participate in modern education.

Capitalism has ruined most of what is great about american society. Cancer patients asking for money on GoFundMe, Predatory banking, automakers forced to profit on volume and designed obsolesce. Is this the promised land of unfettered capitalism? If you don't believe in participating in creating a brighter future for america via paying your taxes and voting for real leaders. yes. yes it is.

So I counter. Paying taxes to support and build on the systems  we all live with is evolution. Hunter-gatherer groups are limited to about 70 individuals, beyond that you must have some form of agriculture. Agriculture implies a social construct, that includes civility. civility includes respect for those who produce agricultural products, as well as those who protect civility. From here a civilization can expand, but it must adapt to changing demands and limitations.

As much as weaker minds strive to generate differences within our society (the entire human race) in order to justify some tenuous controlling influence they happen to have over some diminishing sect, I can assure you we are all one and in this together. We must act to create a better world for the future. It is the one cause that is actually beneficial at a genetic level for all humans.