The comment may represent good faith from the standpoint of its author, but worth noting is that fallacious premises, often ones widely proliferated, tend to sneak their way into discussions.
From left-liberal rhetoric, we are now accustomed to phrasings akin to that of “well-regulated capitalism”. Such appeals to purity simply misdirect substantive analysis away from the true causes for the outcomes they claim to antagonize.
It may seem pleasant to assert the possibility of a capitalism in some ideal form, somehow absolved of the indictments directed at its true manifestation, but doing so is only avoiding the deeper and essential structural criticism.
No particular policy would overcome the fallacy in your argument, because any failure of some particular capitalist society could be dismissed as attributable to improper regulations, instead of to intractable dysfunction of the system at large, of capitalism itself.
Coming to your argument about policy, you have not responded to my concerns.
The comment may represent good faith from the standpoint of its author, but worth noting is that fallacious premises, often ones widely proliferated, tend to sneak their way into discussions.
From left-liberal rhetoric, we are now accustomed to phrasings akin to that of “well-regulated capitalism”. Such appeals to purity simply misdirect substantive analysis away from the true causes for the outcomes they claim to antagonize.
It may seem pleasant to assert the possibility of a capitalism in some ideal form, somehow absolved of the indictments directed at its true manifestation, but doing so is only avoiding the deeper and essential structural criticism.
I listed clear policy steps that can be taken to ensure a fairer system. This definitely doesn’t seem fallacious.
Your response sidesteps the objection.
No particular policy would overcome the fallacy in your argument, because any failure of some particular capitalist society could be dismissed as attributable to improper regulations, instead of to intractable dysfunction of the system at large, of capitalism itself.
Coming to your argument about policy, you have not responded to my concerns.