Reply #115: That's the thing about capitalism

[Cal Carpenter]

It has to fill in every nook and cranny, that's what it does. As a system it relies on expansion. And it leads to concentration of wealth and power, of ownership of the means of production for everything we need to live. It has to spread to all industries, to all corners of the globe. Maybe a couple hundred years ago it was hard to imagine how ubiquitous it would become but in modern times anyone who argues that it can harnessed, regulated or controlled, is either lying or terribly naive.