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Not the person you're replying to, but I think "current" and "system" in "current capitalistic system" are key here. They weren't railing against capitalism in general, but the current system, which is quite a different thing.

For my part, I'm not opposed to "capitalism" in general, but I have quite a few gripes with the current implementation of it.




There is no implentation of capitalism that will ever be unproblematic. No amount of bandaids is going to solve the fact that capital yields can be both positive and negative. When looked at it from this perspective, capitalism is a race to an end goal, not a goal in itself but once people are at the finish line, they don't want the race to finish.


There's no implementation of any political or economic system that's not unproblematic in various ways. Capitalism isn't any different here.




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