Capitalism is neither moral nor immoral it is neutral. All economic and political systems with the exception of fascism and dictatorships are theoretically neutral. It's how they are managed which applies "good" or "bad" to them.
Capitalism is fine as long as it's regulated so that it doesn't destroy resources or pay workers less than a living wage.
An example of "bad" capitalism would be American capitalism generally, i.e. capitalism controlling the hearth care sector, pharmacy etc. Banks gone crazy, wall street and so on.
Good capitalism (good-ish) can be seen through some of the public works efforts undertaken by companies like Google and Facebook.
Companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves as they will in most cases do what is best for the stock-holders which is to achieve a higher profit margin, the issue with that is that this normally includes lay-offs and sending jobs off-shore where they can hire someone for like $1 a day. They will also raise prices when given tax cuts because why not? If the government did not regulate corporations there would be a lot of suffering on the part of the worker as safety restrictions would be eased, pay would be less, unions would be even more stigmatized than they are already (in America anyway). It would be a nightmare.
The question you have to ask yourself is that if capitalism was moral and it worked as intended (a different discussion I guess) why does trickle down economics fail every time it is tried?
The future of capitalism, a "healthy" capitalism is one that lets the free market operate but one that is balanced and restrained by reasonable measures to ensure that it does not cause damage, this included tax reform and in an American context updating the constitution to reflect the idea that "companies are people" in the eyes of the law (Citizen United) and as such they have an obligation to do what is right for society not only the stock-holders.







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