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A system that allows one to profit from their talent and abilities is a good thing. Unfortunately under our current system too many seem to be using that talent and ability to gain preferential treatment and enrich themselves via corruption and insider status.
I guess from a pure laissez-faire point of view those who do not have the connections to game the system deserve what they get. After all they know the rules of the game and it is not the fault of the winners that they didn't set themselves up to profit from the rampant corruption.
I'm not writing about the way a capitalistic system should be but about the way it is now. So to answer the OP, I believe capitalism could be a good system but in the U.S. it is broken. We give our polititians the power to set the rules to try and control corrupt human greed and they wind up taking care of themselves, their families and friends at our expense. I don't think more but better government oversight is the answer.
Why we can't or won't unelect them is a subject for a different thread.
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