Capitalism is an immoral system

I agree with my opponent that state-owned companies are immoral, but that is not the form of economy I argue for anyways, and is rather irrelevant. An economy of state-owned companies is called state capitalism, by the way. I would actually consider that a misnomer and I'm sure you would too, since you agreed that capitalism is the private-ownership of the means of production. But, either way, it's called State Capitalism. Similarly, I wouldn't consider National Socialism a form of socialism, and that is a misnomer too. But at any rate, I shall return to addressing my opponent's points: My opponent argues that most businesses would be cooperatives if the business owner was unnecessary, however this is an unsupported claim and ignores some key facts. The reason we see mostly traditional businesses is because we have an economy that favors capitalism. Banks almost never lend out to cooperatives[1] and the government only ever bails out and subsidizes traditional businesses(I'm sure a source for this claim is not necessary since we've all lived through the period of the bail outs, and we know first-hand from news and such that they were big corporations that were built up in the traditional business sense who were bailed out). In addition, cooperatives aren't set up to out-compete other businesses, while traditional businesses are.[1] Cooperatives are set up to benefit the people involved in the cooperative. Also, most people don't even know about cooperatives [2], so how can a business that most people don't even know exist compete against businesses that everyone has known about since they were a kid? The system is generally rigged in favor of traditional businesses and capitalism. People are taught from a young age how our system works, and that they need to go shop at a traditional business to get products. In fact, I don't even know HOW to find out about cooperatives. I've searched on the internet for some, but the ones I've found are simply too far away for me to shop at. I would personally shop at cooperatives if I knew where to find them, and I would never shop at a traditional business again. I will continue my search for them though. As for all of the things that my opponent argued that a business owner provides, again, all of the workers can provide all of this themselves. They can provide capital, and they do in cooperatives. My opponent claimed that "Capitalism provides for the ultimate freedom and equality because individuals are unrestricted from participating in economic activities." However, this is not true. We have historical evidence to disprove this, since the south used to discriminate against black people. Black people WERE restricted from participating in economic activities. Under capitalism, anyone can refuse to serve anyone, and if every business owner is refusing to serve a minority group, then that minority group is restricted from participating in economy activity. My opponent also claimed that "Every individual is free to make the choice of working or not working." This is not really true. It's either you work or you die. Seriously, if someone were to choose not to work, they wouldn't be able to buy any food or shelter, and would die within a few weeks. You could argue that they could create their own shelter and acquire their own food, however, eventually that won't be the case anymore. Under capitalism, business owners buy out more and more land over time, eventually they may buy the land that you're on. If you don't participate in the capitalist economy, you get screwed over. If you go settle unsettled land, and don't buy the land and claim it for yourself legally under a capitalist system, anyone can come and steal that land from you and use it for their business since it's not "technically" your land. If all the valuable land is bought(and by that, I mean land that is habitable, with the ability to grow your own food, etc), which it pretty much is in this day and age, you have no choice but to participate in the capitalist system and have to work for a wage. Sources: [1] [2] http://www.geo.coop...