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Capitalism
But without capitalism we wouldn't have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.
My ancestors wouldnt have pushed at least one Southern plantation owner to suicide.
I believe this is what they call based
They werent John Brown style abolitionists, they just got pissed off by a business associate and took it about as far as you would expect from a family who still consider themselves American-Scots.
Which is now, very very obviously, not a system design to promote it's own fitness, a la Darwinism...
I wonder what happens to piles of sand placed in the path of high-flowing rivers?