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No system can entirely eliminate negative human qualities

I’m glad we agree.

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My point is that this isn’t a binary situation, but rather a spectrum. Some systems do a better job than others in mitigating these problems. In general, a system needs to be structured in such a way where personal interest aligns with the common interest. Capitalism does the opposite by creating competition between individuals at the cost of social cohesion.

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this isn’t a binary situation, but rather a spectrum

I disagree. It is binary, either the word is meaningfully applied in this context or it isn’t. You said that capitalism “enables” exploitation. Being alive enables exploitation. Capitalism may encourage exploitation, it may increase exploitation but I wouldn’t say it “enables” exploitation.

Unless you have some argument that capitalism somehow provides some specific cause to enable exploitation which is absent from all other systems, while all other systems also provide some different cause which also happens to enable exploitation, your statement that capitalism enables exploitation is incorrect. The specific cause that enables exploitation is being alive and is nothing specific to capitalism. Capitalism is not what enables exploitation. Capitalism does not enable exploitation.

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Yes, capitalism enables exploitation by allowing people who own capital to decide working conditions for people who do not. This is why exploitation is seen everywhere capitalism has ever been tried. I’ve also gave you a concrete example contrasting communism in USSR and the transition to capitalism along with all the horrors that followed. You just proceeded to ignore that.

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