If you built a massively multiplayer game called Capitalism (you could even throw in Democracy), based on the way it runs today, would anyone play it?
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NOTE: here's a quick response to those that maintain that the system we have today is a perversion of Capitalism and not Capitalism itself. The implication is that the term is being misused in the question above. Some thoughts:
- What makes Capitalism so weak, as a system, that it is so easily and horribly misused and/or perverted?
- Any theory that relies on a tightly bound set of theoretical assumptions and lofty preconditions in order to perform effectively sounds very similar to an ideology.
- It's unlikely that any existing economic system, including Capitalism, is the best of all possible systems (we aren't Panglossian here). So, if the technology is available to compete with it (it is), why don't we? May the best system win.