> Anything else is socialist bollocks.
Could you possibly be getting so blinkered by simplistic economic theories that you aren't looking at how people and societies actually work?
Although I must admit I happened to revisit something I wrote, oh, 25 years ago, today.
In it I described the then music industry as being the last home of real kick 'em in the balls capitalism, with the subtext that society was tending more towards a more ethical compass. But I never imagined the rise of multinational advertising and merchandising mega corporations, which make the old record companies look like models of social responsibility by comparison. I guess too many MBAs hae been reading the same simplistic stuff you have, and have forgotten the moral responsibility to be an ethical human being first and a business executive only second.
To quote/misquote/extend on Churchill (who seems to have been quoting someone unrecorded), like democracy, capitalism is the worst form of economic system, except for all the others that have been tried. It should be a tool of society, not its master, and its foolish to believe it perfect or all-wise.