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Capitalism, imho, works so long as it's tempered with pragmatism and ethics. I'm more socialist than most people in the US, but I still feel that capitalism can work when we hold the rich responsible. A lot of very, very rich people get away with a lot of very illegal and unethical behavior in the US, and the fact of the matter is that many of them cannot be stopped without violating the ideals behind capitalism. In a capitalist system, those who behaved illegally or unethically would have to be punished by the market reacting to their behavior. Take Haliburton, for example. They get no bid contracts, which means that the market really can't punish them. It falls to the legal system, which is a bit torn on Hal. The solution to Haliburton seems to be somewhere outside of capitalism.
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