Pure Capitalism With Basic Needs vs Marxist/Social Socialism Dbt 3

The notion that amorality is not a negative trait is demonstrably misguided. We have hundreds of years of capitalism which provide countless examples of how this amorality plays out in real world situations. Business make false claims about products. They rush unsafe products to market. They bribe officials to overlook problems with safety They bribe politicians to pass laws that favor their industry. Is it not a problem that tobacco companies, driven by capitalistic greed, specifically engineered marketing efforts to target young children as future consumers? Is it not a problem that tobacco companies funded research with phony results in an attempt to conceal, for as long as possible, the adverse health risks of smoking? Is it not a problem that pharmaceutical companies have attempted to gain influence over the FDA in order to ensure their new and potentially profitable drugs get quickly to market without full and objective testing as to the safety of same? Is it not a problem that prison unions, who see that their profits have a direct relation to the number of dues-paying prison guards which, in turn, have a direct relation to the number of prisoners that need to be watched, have become the most powerful lobbying force for more and longer prison sentences out of pure financial self-interest rather than any philosophical belief that harsher punishments are morally required or better for society as a whole? Is it not a problem that we have politicians advocating for war simply to improve the economic bottom line of their relatives or patrons in the military-industrial complex? Is it not a problem that corporations that sell baby formula for profit have gone into third world countries and bribed obstetricians to tell mothers who give birth that formula is healthier than breast milk when, in fact, we know that breast milk is much healthier? Is it not a problem that oil companies, who see their profits linked to the noxious and polluting consumption of gas, have taken many measures to try to block the development of alternative energy sources, to the great detriment of all humanity and despite the fact this imperils the very planet on which we live? How many real-world, historical examples of capitalism leading to what can only be described as treasons against humanity, are needed in order to establish that the amorality of the capitalistic system is a fatal flaw in capitalism? It appears that those who advocate for pure capitalism, or anything approaching it, are looking at mathematical models which include assumptions that the world is a level playing field, that businesses do not learn that they can enhance profits by manipulating political and legal systems to their own advantage, and generally that everyone in a capitalistic economy will play "fair." But this is never going to be the case because capitalism establishes a fear-based system. Everyone within the system has the perception that a wrong move, a wrong career choice, a wrong economic choice, could lead to financial ruin, poverty, embarrassment, ruin, homelessness, loneliness, sadness, or death. With that kind of generalized fear operating in the background, people who are relatively well-off, and not facing imminent threat of death or homelessness, nevertheless make choices as to how to behave in their professional lives as if they were on a sinking ship and fighting over the last life preserver. How else do you explain executives for a power plant to knowingly try to cover up evidence they are polluting local water supplies which is causing children to sicken and die, mothers to give birth to deformed children, and other horrors? Or chemical plant operators who save a few bucks by burying toxic waste next to a playground rather than properly disposing of it? This is the wonderful world of capitalism that you advocate, with its beneficent amorality? Obviously, the amorality of capitalism is a flaw, and a fatal one at that.