Capitalism gets a lot of hate.I expect it from the left.
They blame free markets for
- racism,
- “horrifying inequality” and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz,
- “accelerating climate change.”
People on the right generally defend capitalism, but today,
a growing number agree with the left...- So it puzzles me that as markets continue to lift more people out of poverty, capitalism faces more attacks, even from the right.
- “The problem,” says Lindsay, is “it requires people to be free … You can’t control people who are free … So we need to have a government system to tell them to do the right thing in the name of the common good. That’s the mentality.”
