are you talking capitalism as in free market? or capitalism as in corporate state.
We are not a free market, we are far from it. We are closer to being a corporate state than anything. Deals run this country.
The way it is supposed to work is that consumers support the business who then hire people and pay them, and those workers are then able to support families and support those businesses.
The problem is that the consumers are supporting the businesses, who then demand lower minimum wage reductions and do not pay for insurance. The extra money either goes back into the company to stay competitive or to politicians to secure special deals. The worker gets paid less and less and cannot support his family quite so much. Instead of supporting those companies, he supports smaller cheaper companies, whose bosses then go and support those big companies.
