Reply #96: Capitalism is actually indifferent to human suffering. What it

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is set up to do is to exploit -- exploit labor, exploit natural resources, exploit undeveloped countries and peoples. It is a system built on the idea of exploitation (in all senses of the word, perjorative and non-). So the question we need to ask is whether there is an economic system that is not built around exploitation that results in a better outcome for the masses.

I would argue that socialism (where the means of production are publicly owned and operated) is such a system, but I recognize that my opinion is out of favor.