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Capitalism is not exploiting anyone. Capitalism is purely about organising the economy around voluntary transactions.

Exploiting, enslaving and murdering is purely what socialist countries do - and they can get away with all of this, just because they can socialise the cost of all their evil deeds and force people into paying them money.

The only reason capitalism hasn't collapsed is that it's the only way to have a profitable economy. The crooks that you call government recognise that they can steal only so much from the economy before a country collapse.

I'd also argue that we've experimented with elements of socialism and elements of capitalism for the entire existence of civilisation.

Communism can't work unless you have either perfect individuals or a tyrannical states which force resources distribution. In the real world, you end up with socialism. Because people are not perfect, the government which will redistribute resources won't do a perfect job in the best case and will just be completely corrupted in the worst case.

And still, communism was attempted. When did we ever attempt to have an entire capitalist society without a government to ruin it?



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