Perfect Capitalism...

...Does not exist.

We need just enough regulation so that we don't wind up like those people in the laissez-faire capitalism of the Industrial Revolution. The unregulated, 'perfect' free market, with its always happy workers and customers. Circa 1902, picture one big family gathering together lovingly spending the whole day working in a hazardous factory, badly lighted, like a second home. Well, it kind of was their second home. Lost body limbs galore. What a great game too, seeing who can stay unharmed the longest in the factory.

For perfect capitalism to exist, we have to assume people are perfect and don't take advantage of other people and situations. (we have to assume that survival alone isn't the main focus in society; survival makes us do crazy things).

We have to assume that government will let Mom and Pop stores breathe (hypothetically speaking, relax on regulation) to truly be competitive, but it just doesn't work like that.

Little businesses turn into big businesses. Period.

The more popular and big that quaint little business becomes, this little guy turns into the big guy and swallows the other little guys up, even when this little guy got popular due to good practices and not cheating and low-ball, dirty tactics.

But businesses do take unfair advantages and resort to dirty tactics, because we live in a cut-throat, highly competitive society, and somehow people can tolerate that.

Your coworker will continue to throw you under the bus, basically, and you'll understand why.

People, though they may not like it, can tolerate a highly competitive, cut-throat society, so we will continue to see unfair business practices. Illegal business practices, because of the mantra of 'no regulation!,' not considering the fact that everyone in society is regulated.

We all have rules we have to abide by, like, for safety, for just one example.

We all have rules. Why would business be exempt for some ideal that doesn't exist.

People say that we're experiencing a period of corporatism or corprotocracy, because big business is asking government favors and those favors are being granted, with a little bit of bribing money of course.

Can't go anywhere without some bribing money.

What people fail to realize is that if a small business had a chance to be put in that favorable position, having enough money to bribe the government so they can stay in power within the market, they would do it. They don't call it competition for no reason. Companies will always try to find ways to be bigger and tougher than the competition, stooping to low moves because their survival and livelihood is linked to it. When something is linked to fear, humans behave immorally and irrationally.

Also, it's not necessarily socialism for government to favor certain businesses, because companies are paying for the privilege, in money or through providing special services.

We live in a society/market where everything can essentially be bought, why not government favoritism and allegiance?

Plus, I thought socialism was the government working for the people to increase their standard of living instead of a small minority (Somewhat Sweden, Denmark, Germany), because social goods are going to the majority of people. Anyway, I digress.

Perfect capitalism is not feasible because its not workable in the reality of life.





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