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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by Karunamon on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:48PM (#18123961)
If your criticism of capitalism is that it's not pure and not perfect, it's a non-sequitur since there are no pure and perfect ideologies, not in economics and not in government.

I'm reminded of that comic with the cats on trial. Capitalism sucks in many ways, but it sucks a hell of a lot less than the alternatives we've tried. Same with democracy.

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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by ionised on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @05:08AM (#18128675)
I'm not going to stop criticising something just because I don't have a tried and tested alternative ready to go. That makes no sense.

> Capitalism sucks in many ways, but it sucks a hell of a lot less than the alternatives we've tried. Same with democracy.

And that's fine, but I'm not so narrow-minded as to accept that there are no alternatives. History is replete with people patching up broken systems in futility; all because they could see no other way than the status quo.

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