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I haven't quite figured out how to put it into words but in my mind it seems like capitalism and Nazi Germany or the USSR share a core mechanism. A single death is a tragedy, but many deaths are a statistic. When a singular person does something bad they need to be punished. If a system does something bad, even if a singular person or group of people were directly responsible for setting up the system they do not receive the consequences.
It's also the reason automated systems being used for making decisions that affect real human lives bother me so much right now. In a vacuum I don't actually have a problem with them, but unless laws and regulations with teeth are put in place to hold those that implement them responsible for their mistakes then under our current system by definition they will only ever be used to maximize profits and minimize culpability.
Maximizing profits and missing culpability is capitalism, working as intended.
With that said, the system is only working on behalf of those with the money. The 0.1%
I say again: the system is working as intended.