Capitalism is ruthlessly fair. It treats everyone the same, regardless
of race, creed, or political affiliation. It is the ultimate
democracy, and its basic rules are immutable.

No, it is not.

Capitalism is sort of mostly fair when it's practiced by equals. But
capitalism makes some powerful and some not. The next generation
inherets this, and at that point it becomes inherently unfair.

Small companies are far more influenced by individuals than large ones.
This allows large ones to get away with more. If they become large
enough to become monopolistic and get away with it, the key has been
thrown out.

Large companies can purchase more votes than small ones, or individuals,
and those votes keep them large and influential, despite any quality
issues with their products. WalMart, with its decrees about RFID tags,
may well be the biggest threat to privacy there is, but it is largely
unstoppable because there is little of equivalent size with sufficient
coherency to fight it.

Capitalism is also about passing costs on to others, who cannot defend
themselves against such a large entity. Dumping waste upstream harms
all those downstream, but those downstream have little recourse against
the capitalists upstream, especially when they are not in the market for
the product in the first place. This is inherently unfair. Outsourcing
is also "capitalism at work", yet has been derided as "unfair", both to
American workers, and to the foreign ecosystem.

But that's the way unrestrained capitalism works.

Some restraints are necessary. The key is which ones, and preventing
unrestrained government from becoming the evil we are trying to avoid
with unrestrained capitalism.

Jose
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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
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