It would be nice if the elephant in the room were addressed: We are Not in a capitalist society. We are in a corporatist society.<p>It took a joint collaboration between corporations and government to blow up the economy with the 2008 financial crisis. And then the government bailed out the financial elites. In a capitalist society, those who failed would go under. In fact, we probably wouldn&#x27;t have reached that crisis point, because the Fed would not exist (and would not be manipulating interest rates), there would be no revolving door between corporations and government (Former Goldman Sachs CEO becomes Treasury Secretary, promptly gives trillions of dollars to Wall St; Former senior executive for Monsanto becomes head of FDA).<p>Granted, pure capitalism is not exactly possible given the flawed existence of humans and our fragile societies. But let&#x27;s at least call our current system what it is: corporatism. Maybe even with a dash of nepotism, militarism and fascism.