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Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks

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Is There Something Integral to Capitalism?

To me, capitalism is an economic system that prioritizes delivering profit for the honest of wealth. It enriches the already rich and systematically puts a squeeze on everything else that we value. So it underpays and undermines wage workers. It privatizes public goods like health care and transport. And crucially, it captures the legal system and the political system so that it can reproduce its privilege.

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