Civil liberties

The small businesses will either go bankrupt or become big.

And? That's how a free market works. Free market capitalism is driven by choices. You choose to go to one store over another, you choose to work at one job over another. It's up to the business or company to attract your interest. Whether it's lower prices, better quality, better pay. If you put those decisions in the hands of the government, they will find ways to reduce the number of choices you have. This in turn has a very likely chance to raise prices and and lower the quality. The government isn't going to pick based off of what's better for you, they'll pick what puts money in their pockets. If for a second, you think our government is corrupt, why the hell would you want them to have more power? Unless you benefit from that government.

Let's see: The cons: ok

Endless wars for the military industrial complex:

Started by the government not capitalism.

Destroying people's livelihoods by outsourcing:

Making prices cheaper for the people, allowing people to find better jobs for better wages, outsourcing mundane jobs that nobody wants to do to countries that can do it cheaper.

For profit healthcare that either kills you or makes you go bankrupt:

More competition for healthcare services and insurance companies which ultimately get cheaper.

Police quotas which lead to mass incarceration for private prisons profit, and the use of actual slave labour:

This litterly has very little to do with capitalism, that's over regulation by an over inflated government.

Starvation wages: We have those now because the government has too much control over the economy. Again a government problem, not capitalism.

Literally going back to child labour:

Really?

Simultaneously having homeless people and people-less homes:

Have you been to San Francisco? And California is very left leaning. I can end this entire discussion on that state alone. That's the poster of an overinflated government.

Creating products just to destroy them or having them gather dust in a warehouse, because that's more profitable than the products serving a need:

Examples? If a company is to incompetent to predict what the consumer wants, they're not going to be around for very long. Unless of course they have ample government support, then expect more of this.

Producing more food than necessary and still having 9 million+ die of starvation per year:

Examples?

Ruining children's futures by purposely underfunding public schools so people choose private schools instead:

How does this have anything to do with capitalism. The government is in charge of where the money goes. If anything that's government mismanagement. Try homeschooling. It's cheaper, there's already programs in place (ABC Mouse for one), and the parent decides what the child learns. That's one of the many private choices available. With government control (mostly local) there's a standard each school has to meet and kids still fail to meet them. We can agree that the rich usually decides, through the government, who goes to what school. Private schools or school choice allows kids to get a better education. Most of what's wrong with schooling is government mismanagement.

The pros: Some oligarchs got rich.

In a free market, when the rich get richer so do everyone else. The rich love to spend money but only in a strong economy. That money goes back into the economy which gets passed down the line. This creates jobs. increases wages, lowers prices, which all strengthen the economy. If the government sets too many regulations, small businesses that can't afford to factor in those expenses, like raising minimum wages, will go out of business. Since we're talking about minimum wage, corporations can raise their minimum wage without losing profit by automating. Which reduces the the number of jobs in two ways.

It's the same argument with 2A. Restricting the ability for honest citizens to get a gun, doesn't stop gun violence if a criminal can still get one on the black market. Advantage criminal.

Better yet drug laws. Why is marijuana still a class 1 drug if it's been proven to be safer than most heavy drugs on the market? And more useful. The FDA, a government entity. And why do they keep it illegal? Pharmaceutical companies pay big money to support specific politicians to keep it that way. I can get in a whole other discussion about this topic. I mean, you could say that's capitalism, but that wouldn't apply to a free market.

Let me know when you see the "good". If you set out to make the most moronic economic system, it stil wouldn't be as moronic as capitalism. This looks like the brainchild of a cartoon villain and a toddler. If any other system did even half of this, you'd say it "failed" and we need to invade to liberate the people there.

I'm not even going to respond to this. Just refer back to the previous comments.

/r/Libertarian Thread Parent