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The Problem With Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with capitalism. There is something wrong with the form of capitalism that we practice now. Capitalism as Adam Smith envisioned it is the capitalism that Thomas Jefferson believed in. It's only that since about the 1970s that capitalism has become bastardized. The idea of using mass layoffs to balance the books on a regular basis didn't exist prior to the 1980s.