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by autobodie 339 days ago
Who cares how they would be written? They would never get passed. It's called capitalism for a reason - capital calls the shots. Why does nobody understand this?
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So you mean that there is just one rule, capital calls the shots. Then why do we even have laws and regulation?

I think that every market needs regulation to work well. Different rules for different markets, but they need regulation to keep participants on relatively equal footing, for example to avoid cartels.

This is the thing I think alot of people dont understand. Capitalism is not about people and their interests, its about capital, its perfectly willing to sacrifice social good, people's lives, etc. all in pursuit of Capital and its interests. Until people start to wisen up to this, we will continue to hear stories of organizations doing clearly evil things to serve their bottom line. The opioid crisis being caused by pharmaceudical companies in America being a clear example of this.