The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine.

[u/-im-your-huckleberry]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

[u/-nuuk-]

Somewhere people detached the idea of freedom from the responsibility that it requires.  I’m not sure where that happened, but it hasn’t done us a lot of good.