Fred-Rick
2 min readDec 8, 2023

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Big concepts should not be confused for something they are not.

Capitalism is a manner of letting money do the talking.

Note how it does not declare what form of regulation society should place on capitalism. We have two different concepts that are not in full control by themselves per se.

So, when we consider capitalism a dictator, then we end up where B wants us to end up.

But that is the same if we consider a government a dictator.

That is not what we have in place, so the presentation is a false utopia.

How to solve this?

Use correct analogies to show what is going on.

Capitalism: A Horse

Government: A Horse Jockey

United States/United Kingdom:

Big horses, small horse jockeys.

The horse can please itself more than it should, goes wherever it wants to go, and the lower classes in society are worst off in these very rich places in the world.

Sweden, Netherlands, Spain:

Big horses, not-small horse jockeys. The horses can go mostly where they want to go, but are controlled better, the lowest segments in society are better off than in USA/UK.

Because the industries are in a direct competition, the horse jockeys in Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain cannot grow out to be super big and heavy, yet they are also not as tiny as the horse jockeys in Britain and the USA.

We find many nations in the top ten Happiest Nations of the world that have strong horses and similarly affective horse jockeys of decent sizes.

Conclusion: The United States may lead the way in capitalistic innovations, but they also have a large segment in society living in greater poverty compared to the other rich nations in the world. Their official poverty level is artificially set at an extremely low level, so only the worst cases of poverty are counted in the official figures. For instance, comparing the poverty level agains the median income in a nation, the EU uses 60% of that median income (counting more individuals as living in poverty), whereas the United States (in my last calculations of several years back) was the same as 39% of the median income (counting fewer individuals as living in poverty).

We need the truth above water.

We should not water down concepts or turn them into dictatorships that will then indeed cause great havoc. Let's remain real. Let's not discuss concepts that are not the actual reality. Let's establish modifiers that belong to the concept; let's accept that the word capitalism cannot be discussed by itself but will always require a (substantial) context about control (and who is doing the controlling).

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Fred-Rick
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