{"id":6783,"date":"2019-03-12T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:27:17","slug":"since-capatilism-kills-more-than-it-helps-now-what-also-booker-harris-warren-yang-biden-or-bernie-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/12\/since-capatilism-kills-more-than-it-helps-now-what-also-booker-harris-warren-yang-biden-or-bernie-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Since capatilism kills more than it helps, now what? ALSO&#8230; Booker, Harris, Warren, Yang, Biden or Bernie&#8211;>2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031219-1.jpg\" alt=\"Since capatilism kills more than it helps, now what? ALSO... Booker, Harris, Warren, Yang, Biden or Bernie--2020?\" class=\"wp-image-6778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031219-1.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031219-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031219-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw031219-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>Since capatilism kills more than it helps, now what? ALSO&#8230; Booker, Harris, Warren, Yang, Biden or Bernie&#8211;2020?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably there is no &#8220;now what&#8221;. Capitalism, for all its flaws, is the only system that humans have ever known, and probably ever will know as long as we live on a planet with finite resources. Even in supposed &#8220;non-capitalist&#8221; regimes, the fundamentals of capitalism still exist in gray and black markets. It is fair to say that it has killed a lot of people by extension, but <em>more<\/em> than it helps? I dunno. A lot of people are alive today due to technological advances created in order to make a buck (or even to make a buck while being more effective at killing the other guy in war). I think that all of the candidates for 2020 are good people doing their best to make our country better as they see fit (how&#8217;s that for dodging a question?). You sound like you might enjoy reading Thomas Piketty&#8217;s <em>The Economics of Inequality<\/em> (O&#8217;Neill HB523 .P54713 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably there is no &#8220;now what&#8221;. Capitalism, for all its flaws, is the only system that humans have ever known, and probably ever will know as long as we live on a planet with finite resources. Even in supposed &#8220;non-capitalist&#8221; regimes, the fundamentals of capitalism still exist in gray and black markets. It is fair &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/12\/since-capatilism-kills-more-than-it-helps-now-what-also-booker-harris-warren-yang-biden-or-bernie-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Since capatilism kills more than it helps, now what? ALSO&#8230; Booker, Harris, Warren, Yang, Biden or Bernie&#8211;>2020?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6834,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}