Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[Renton]

So how will the free market prevent politics from returning?

All we need is a politics that is friendly toward capitalism. All problems of racism and corruption aside, the U.S. from 1800-1900 and to a lesser extent 1900-1960 embodied this. Compared with most of the developed world, the U.S. is still one of the most capitalism-friendly countries, and that's probably the only thing about the U.S. I have any pride for when I talk with people abroad.

edit As a neophyte philosopher of Economics, it also seems to me that capitalism has a lot of mechanisms for the concentration of wealth. And when you concentrate wealth, you concentrate power and when you concentrate power, you approach something like politics.

Again, I don't think this particularly matters as long as the will of the people is pro-capitalist. Corporate interests are able to lobby politicians because the politicians have the power to sling billions of dollars around. They have that power because the U.S. populace believes that having a 6 trillion dollar state budget is alright by them. If people knew how much damage this massive misallocation of resources was causing, they would vote to limit state power and lobbying wouldn't nearly be as profitable.