> Their robber baron behavior reveals their true values and the reality of capitalism.
This is rather reductionist… By your same logic I could say that Stalin and Mao revealed the true values and reality of communism.
Let’s not elaborate on it further though and just leave this as a simple argument. Free market capitalism has led us to the most prosperous, peaceful, and advanced society humanity has ever ventured to create. Communism threatened that prosperity and peace with atrocities on a scale that exists beyond human comprehension. Capitalism, even with all of its faults, is the obvious choice.
It's rather strawman to bring up communism in a conversation that talked nothing about it, except that Capitalism is clearly flawed.
Capitalism without law ends up with the same kind of authoritariasm as communism without law. Some Rich Guy ends up telling everyone what to do as a ruler with loose rules that no longer resemble the economic model. That's what people complain about when they bring up terms like "late stage capitalism".
This is rather reductionist… By your same logic I could say that Stalin and Mao revealed the true values and reality of communism.
Let’s not elaborate on it further though and just leave this as a simple argument. Free market capitalism has led us to the most prosperous, peaceful, and advanced society humanity has ever ventured to create. Communism threatened that prosperity and peace with atrocities on a scale that exists beyond human comprehension. Capitalism, even with all of its faults, is the obvious choice.