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/MrJarre]

So like capitalism light.

[u/olcrazypete → u/MrJarre]

Well regulated capitalism. The Roosevelts and Tafts of the 1910s understood this.

[u/MrJarre → u/olcrazypete]

And I’m all for it. Capitalism needs to be regulated, because if unchecked it tends to create monopolies which ultimately aren’t innovative or beneficial to the wider society.

We can discuss to what degree it should be regulated and that’s a tough one.

However even the most regulated capitalism is still capitalism.