Monday, June 1, 2015

"Unfettered capitalism"

Nothing frustrates me more than lamentations about "the evils of unfettered capitalism."

It's an uninformed, misguided perspective, used either naively to surrender or with malice to coerce.

Ponder these questions.  If you can answer the first one, you can answer the rest:

  • What is capitalism?
  • Is capitalism immoral?
  • Is capitalism amoral?
  • What is the opposite of capitalism?
    • Is that immoral?
    • Is that amoral?