Every child is born into an eternal power struggle. Life, including that of humans, is regulated by laws of dominance and subservience. There , you have the cruelty.

The cruelty applies to all systems. What passes for capitalism today is nothing of the kind.

Expectations seem to be that absolutely no one suffers in a capitalist system. A combination of democratic principles and free markets minimizes the cruelty imposed on us by nature. That is the best we can do.

Ask capitalism to do the impossible and call it cruel when  it fails ? The Great Depression is often cited as the failure of capitalism.. At the very worst of the Great Depression, prosperity in the United States was greater than the best of times than any country in the world, using any other system. In the Soviet Union under communism, folks over there never did achieve the level of prosperity experienced in the United States during its worst economic period. It is the world that is cruel, not capitalism.

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