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Agree. Everyone's trying to game the system and socialize costs, but privatize profits. I'll make an example. Coca-Cola is one of the biggest plastic polluters in the world and their prime product contributes to diabetes. Are the adverse environmental and health effects factored into their margins? Not at all. It's society who'll pay for those.There is a movie running on the TV just now, The Grapes of Wrath, which just had a scene that casts a bright light on one of our system's biggest flaws. The people that make major decisions have no connection to them beyond a number on a ledger. I understand how finance works, but when it comes down to strangers in other cities handing down decisions that end up ruining the lives of people they have never even so much as glimpsed out the 27th floor window, and have chains of authority that prevent the affected from even knowing who the decision makers are, that is a serious defect.
China is a bad example. In a >4000 year old empire where a significant proportion of people still carry the name or ancient dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wu, Wei, Shu, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing/Xing) authority works differently.I am not anti-Capitalism either and I do get this argument, at the same time in China when they tell you to wear masks, you're wearing a mask and that's that. One could argue about their case counts and that would be fair but the point is they address without a bunch of rightwing lunatics telling them to stick it while gladly spreading the virus.
The other side of that are human rights atrocities, like Tibet. I would like to see more of a balance somewhere in the middle but Capitalism makes for wild and unpredictable cultural and financial shifts.