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  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.
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.