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I'm a capitalist. i believe in capitalism. but capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

-Thomas Friedman

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I'm A Capitalist. I Believe In Capitalism.

Thomas Friedman

I'm a capitalist. i believe in capitalism. but capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

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Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy. if we ever do find a better system, i'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. the publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. they deal with promotional people. they deal with financial people. they deal with accountants. they deal with people who work on higher levels. they deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. you could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization the against malaria foundation which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets to protect children. and we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria. fortunately more and more people are understanding this idea, and the result is a growing movement effective altruism.

I'm not a communist. i'm an american. i'm a capitalist. i mean, i'm not a very good capitalist, myself. i'm not very good at it, but it's not that i'm not for capitalism. but people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. i mean, it shows you're an idiot.

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . it is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. queen elizabeth owned silk stockings. the capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

'safety', the wife of pablo said. 'there is no such thing as safety. there are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. in seeking safety now you lose all.'

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