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Anti-capitalism is an education problem, but it doesn't just apply to the lay. Academics and professionals tend to not treat economics like a science, and we all get screwed because of it. Supply and demand is like physics: it operates on rules. But unlike physics, professionals often disregard the rules of supply and demand. It's understandable because we're talking about peoples' lives, their health and happiness. So morals appear to be paramount
But it's still a science, and one of its foundations is an operational system of supply and demand. This system includes the lowering or raising of wages for all sorts of reasons. Obstructing capitalism to help the masses will only hurt the masses because that which creates what is help for the masses is based on capitalism. However, welfarism can be added in the ways that capitalism fails, and we've recently discussed that
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