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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (52043)3/6/2008 6:26:05 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (2) of 540882
 
"If, because of our capitalist system, those people were captured by special interests, then we'd have the same old crap."

Government officials being "captured by special interests", presumably to do things not in the public interest, is not a flaw of capitalism, but rather of representative government. The solution is not to scrap either capitalism or representative government, but simply to make and enforce better government ethics laws.

Also, eliminating capitalism and the profit motive doesn't eliminate special interests. It just moves them inside government.

As for whether we'd get "the same old crap", what makes you think the profits are better on the crap than on the fancy, healthy stuff you buy at Trader Joe's?
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