George Takei: "When history looks back on this period, people will ask..."

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77. "FDR achieved a balance of sorts"

And that's exactly my point. I said from the start that capitalism obviously requires effective regulation and oversight, and with those things, it can do quite well for a large number of people, and create a minimal safety net for all.

Of course, even under FDR, black people in the US were still getting a raw deal. But the fault there was racism, not capitalism.

Note that "capitalism" is not synonymous with free enterprise or individual initiative and ownership...

Maybe not precisely synonymous, but damn close to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism):

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by every owner of wealth, property or production ability in capital and financial markets whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.

yes, it makes sense to contest the evils of rampant environmental destruction, sociopathic levels of profit-seeking...

Of course it makes sense to do that. I've said nothing contrary to that. But capitalism is simply the current milieu in which many human failings, like greed and corruption, are playing out. Capitalism's only direct connection to such problems is that it simply makes a lot of human failings far more efficient to express.

Abandoning capitalism, and certainly just bad-mouthing capitalism without offering proven, solid solutions, does nothing to advance the cause of remedying social ills and environmental destruction.