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  Source: trust me
context: According to traditional views of capitalism, a capitalist system is a system in which markets are able to operate freely, self regulating by the laws of supply and demand. 
  However, a crucial component of capitalism is that the role of government is to provide sufficient regulation in order to mitigate market failures and externalities. Examples of market failures include things like roads and street lighting. Examples of externalities include things like damaging the environment. 
  Most of the issues associated with capitalism that make it “bad” are really the unwillingness of governments to properly regulate market failures and externalities. Some would argue that a system that chooses not to regulate markets properly, at the expense of the consumer and environment, is not really capitalism at all; rather it corporatism. >
  
  
  Most of the issues associated with capitalism that make it “bad” are really the unwillingness of governments to properly regulate market failures and externalities
  
  I would personally add sometimes the issues are government refusing to stay out of the markets. For instance bailing the banks out in 2008, and now banks don't value security anymore just growth.
  They know the government will come to save them when really they should of all gone bankrupt and the banks that take their place wouldn't make the same mistakes again. >
  
  The issue is, if the government was regulating the banking sector properly in the first place, things would never have been able to reach the crisis point of fraudulent activity that caused the sector to collapse. Bailing out banks is pretty much socialism. It can no longer be considered a private sector when tax money is used to cover losses. This is another feature of what we might call corporatism. As some have put it, it is “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”. 
  Although, for what it’s worth, in hindsight, I don’t see how it would have been possible for the sitting government of the time to be willing to allow the banks to fail. The implications of that would have been that a huge fraction of peoples savings would be gone. Can you imagine what the riots in the streets would have been like if that had happened? >
  
  Keep in mind government controls interest rates, and drives people to take on debt they can't afford.  See sub prime mortgages pre 2008 or student loans now.  Government encouraging cheap debt, which destroys your future, is government and capitalism working together to provide immediate gratification.  Everyone wins, till the music stops.  🎶 >
  
  This is not unpopularopinion at all. Capitalism is the mainstream economic and political system in the world. There are also many people can point out the good and the bad of the system. >
  
  It’s unpopular on reddit, lol >
  
  Yeah no kidding, look at these comments lmao. >
  
  Most of the time I hear people complaining about capitalism it actually has nothing to do with capitalism. It's just the classic reddit hive cry of "thing bad. "
  Just today I was reading about how bad capitalism was because some guy was expected to gasp pay his loans back.. >
  
  I mean, predatory loans are a thing, but that falls under “corruption” in my eyes.
  99% of the time when people complain about “capitalism” they’re actually complaining about corruption, and then they fawn over how wonderful a communist or socialist society would be, as if those systems are immune to corruption and capitalism isn’t. >
  
  Anything humans are involved with will have corruption, it’s simple human nature. >
  
  Tell that to them not me, I know what it looks like. >
  
  The way I put it to everyone although I get a ton of disagreement.
  Only trust someone to do what they feel is in their best interests. No matter what they say or try and distract you with it always boils down to what serves them best. This goes for everyone, myself included. >
  
  The unfortunate thing is this advanced society primed for success is of no use to a family who cant afford to heat their home in the winter. >
  
  well  i’m not here to say that you aren’t bringing up a valid point. but that heating system their home has is probably only as advanced as it is due to the progress that capitalism is supposed to drive. obviously there are huge flaws here but it’s something to take into consideration