To add to that, capitalism is constantly in a state of trying to destroy itself, like a confused angsty teen. It wants to make weak willed people fat, until the point they die of heart disease. It wants to sink people with credit and debt that they can't afford to pay, to buy things they don't need. It wants to buy up your land, water and air, and sell it back to you for "profit". It's full of contradictions and ultimately illogical behavior. The one thing it never does, is accept responsibility for being wrong. Whenever capitalism fails, it is not a failure of capitalism. The fat person was weak willed. The poor person was bad with finances. The bank made bad loans or was insolvent. It is never the case that capitalism was a bad idea, because it merely identifies itself as whatever is successful and profitable, and never accepts its failures. That's just stupid.