What are you talking about? The whole post is based on statistics, not illusions if you will say something like this maybe the best that you can do is demostrate it.
Thanks to the Capitalist system the Industrial Revolutions had the impact that this had meant HUGE world progress. No one can say that it was thanks to invasions and continental looting that the progress that we see today emerged... If that were the case, Argentina and Venezuela would not have been strong economies long time ago.
On what evidence do you base your claim that the free market is a "fairy tale"?.
"You might want to take a few minutes to consider where your charts and graphs are coming from and why. Even what numbers that have any shred of validity are overlooking the millions who died to make them possible. It's all a load of crap." What the...? And I suppose you have the truth in your hands, right?, man, not everything is a conspirancy of USA... Prove yourself that they are wrong and stop basing your comment on "I believe, I feel..."
"If corporations and the wealthy are taxed properly and FORCED to play fair, then capitalism can be FORCED to yield fair results for a population a la the 1950s and 1960s but that is not the normal way of things." Why should they be forced to "Fair Play" if they are in free competition and a liberal economy?, do you understand that you look like a socialist?
Read and learn how and why these companies managed to avoid paying taxes.... It seems you didn't want to read the article where you got that information.
"Meanwhile I am required by the US government to purchase liability insurance (rather than insuring my own vehicle). I am required to pay for corporate health insurance. I am required to pay for 8 ongoing military conflicts at the cost of 1 mill per bomb and these wars are not based on the consent of my representatives in Congress." That's your problem. The system itself supports the most powerful, so there is no room for complaints in this regard. Again, you're sounding like a real socialist.
"And in the real world all economic models are converted by corruption into misery machines unless people use common sense and compromise to step in and stop it from happening. That requires information, morality, and moderation." What is the point, all governments are corrupt, what does the System have to do with the fact that human beings are corrupt?
You say my data is false, but you don't prove it, you criticize capitalism from the beginning of its history to the present day but based on sentimentality and anecdotic evidence.
RE: Capitalism is the BEST System