I will say that capitalism alone needs to be tempered by other things, or people will suffer. This is not necessarily more government. It means that people need to have other things they value besides maximizing profits. A sense of compassion would help, and people actually doing things to help their neighbor, would help a lot. Capitalism is a great vehicle to generate wealth, but then the question remains about what the wealth is to be used for. Are we to just mindlessly go for the generating even more wealth, or using it to help others? Are we to build a society that manufactures false discontent, in order to get people to borrow and buy, or strive for other things?
I am of the belief a liberal will see the problems in a society, and then believe the answer is always, "GET THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED!". There is the line Reagan said about liberals wanting to subsidize things that don't work, and tax things that do.
A traditionalist (subset of conservatism), with a sense of patriotism and America first, will argue that a country needs to have values it upholds and remains true to, and the role of government is to help preserve those values.
The libertarian, of course, believes all this is nonsense and it is the job of government to get out of the way, and to allow people to fail... even to the extent people die, if necessary. It is through this failing and death, that we evolve a better society, as the superior rise to the top.
Anyhow, one can do a critique of Bioshock 1 and 2, to see this discussed.
