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There are good free market capitalists who are trying to expose corporatism to distinguish it from capitalism with healthy competition that makes locally owned services and businesses, some of those even get to know their customers. Coporations believe they are entitled to everybody else’s money while only doing the token minimal for very large amounts of money.

I am very much a capitalist at heart. It’s the only system proven to raise the quality of life for everyone. The current corporatism isn’t the same as capitalism. I’m not a fan of that.

I’m curious, how exactly do you define “capitalism”? I’m having difficulty constructing a definition which doesn’t inevitably lead to corporatism.

Most of our economy is small business.

The problem is large companies have a large influence on politics, etc that they shouldn’t have.

Many of our regulations are nothing more than a barrier for a small business to start.

It’s why I praise Elon for growing Tesla. Only someone with his wealth and connections could push the EV industry to where it is now.

Doesn’t mean I like Elon as a person but that is where we are now. To get a new idea going, we need a mega wealthy person to do it and that shouldn’t be the case.

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> The problem is large companies have a large influence on politics, etc that they shouldn’t have.
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> It’s why I praise Elon for growing Tesla.

Usually I'm with you but...HUH? literally owns , one of the largest social media platforms, and therefore has some amount of political power in the .

When he bought Tesla, he didn’t own X. He was wealthy but not insanely wealthy.

I wish he hadn’t bought x and just stuck to cars and rocket ships.