When the economy stops growing limitations of resources become important. Allowing freedom of speech v. protecting national security. Providing trees to make paper v. maintaining forests. There is a struggle to influence government decisions on the objectives of government. All policies have some redistributive qualities to them.
Human nature is selfish.
I. Pure capitalism A. Capitalism requires 1. Independent craftsperson became a factory employee 2. In the twentieth century - capitalism became a corporate system 1. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporate powers. After World War II, the Cold War kept the U.S. on a military-based economy b.