Reply #1: By its own nature it seems that it must.

[MrSlayer]

If left unfettered it will just eat and eat until it becomes the proverbial snake swallowing its own tail. However, capitalism can work for the bulk of the people if it is strongly regulated and offset with a healthy dose of socialism. We did ok for a good forty years until Reaganomics and corporatism came along and began this descent into the Abyss.