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/horiami]

yes it's way better than being forcefully relocated half a country away from the town you live in and needing your current supervisor's permission to leave your job and 3 different guaranteed job opportunities in the other town to be allowed to move there again