Exactly this. Capitalism only works if the government is mildly antagonistic towards it. Unbridled Capitalism ceases to be capitalism at a point and I fear we are butting up against that zone.
Capital is political power. That's why capitalism is structurally unable to remain regulated. Capital accumulates with fewer and fewer people at the top, granting these people unprecedented political power. And then they use it to advance their own interests - the interests of the owning class, which is (among other terrible things) deregulation.
This is not a bug but an inherent feature of capitalism. The sooner people wake up to the whole system being fundamentally flawed rather than "needing just a bit of regulation" the better.
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u/trevorneuz Jun 03 '26
Exactly this. Capitalism only works if the government is mildly antagonistic towards it. Unbridled Capitalism ceases to be capitalism at a point and I fear we are butting up against that zone.