Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
So you accept that capitalism leads to inequalities but say it fixes the problem too. Thank you for making my point.
I've said no such thing. Inequality is a non-removable facet of life. Government makes it worse and capitalism makes it better.

Thankfully you're not in the majority in that view. If you take it to its logical conclusion you will start letting sick people die so you don't interfere with nature. Probably best to let the sick baby born to a poor family who can't afford treatment to die as well since that's just survival of the fittest.
I have not suggested cruelty or psychopathy. The world is Darwin. It is best that we understand this and use the knowledge to construct the best society we can. Not doing so would be attempts at breaking the natural world in ways that doesn't get broken.

An example is how, because of the Darwin nature of people, when the government subsidizes unproductive behavior, it promotes the survival of unproductive behavior. This can be thought of as the environment selecting for behavior that harms. Applying Darwinian ideas to society has nothing to do with the barbaric notion that many think, but with promoting good and discouraging bad.

Are you suggesting that governments instigated the class system through their efforts to redistribute wealth? Or can you accept that there were rich people and poor people long before there was such a thing as government.
You said this was capitalism. It's not. Capitalism is very new in history. Where free market capitalism has thrived, we've seen vast thriving of the poor. Where we have seen the class divides you're discussing is where we haven't found capitalism and instead of found powerful governments.