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Right, and I think I made it pretty clear that I'm not suggesting socialism as a preferable alternative to what we have now. I'm only suggesting that a lot of us are too easy on capitalism, we get so caught up in our own success and work ethic that we forget how we got here in the first place and how there are many people out there who weren't in a position like ours. We need to stop saying things like "Everybody has equal opportunity" or "Everybody has the potential to do this or that", it's over-generalizing, it's failing to acknowledge people with disabilities, birth defects, and mental illnesses, it's failing to acknowledge being born into poverty, it's failing to acknowledge being scammed by others. It's that kind of ignorance that allows holes in the system to sneak by unchecked. If we want capitalism to continue working as well as it does it needs to monitored, we can't just kneel down before it, we must identify its flaws and address them in one way or another. That doesn't mean pushing for socialism, that means adapting the current system to suit a complex society where not everybody is born in the same neighborhood.

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