Reply #118: You hit it on the nose.

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Basically, there is only one "free-market fundamentalist" economic philosophy, but hundreds of paradigms for socialist economies--the grand portion of which either haven't been explored or have been totally ignored. A left-libertarian configuration has never been tried in the modern era.

When people say "capitalism works" I assume they're members of the ruling class. Slavery never died, we just offshored it. Ask kids in Iraq, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Tanzania, or China how well capitalism is working for them, ya know?

"Capitalism works" means just means capitalism works for me.