I think the theory is that capitalism pits the unbearable assholes’ psychotic ambitions against one another and allows the normal people to reap the benefits of their relentless competition, while a functional democracy regulates the economy to prevent any one particular asshole from gaining too much power and enforces regulations to handle the externalities, and that in a functional democracy nobody who is too much of an asshole can ever get too powerful.
Of course, all of that presumes a functional democracy and… well… [gestures around broadly]
it also assumes none of the unbearable assholes get together and worm their way into the government so they can dismantle it from the inside
[gestures around broadly]
this is inherant in all human systems, not like capitalism is immune either
I think the theory is that capitalism pits the unbearable assholes’ psychotic ambitions against one another and allows the normal people to reap the benefits of their relentless competition, while a functional democracy regulates the economy to prevent any one particular asshole from gaining too much power and enforces regulations to handle the externalities, and that in a functional democracy nobody who is too much of an asshole can ever get too powerful.
Of course, all of that presumes a functional democracy and… well… [gestures around broadly]
it also assumes none of the unbearable assholes get together and worm their way into the government so they can dismantle it from the inside
[gestures around broadly]