I really oppose market capitalism and it’s up to its defenders to patch the bugs, for example by acquiescing to environmental regulation (like an ETS) and labor laws. And I’ve proposed banning the network effect and ending copyright.
Of course, there are those who want to replace market capitalism entirely and I’m among them. But whenever I criticize the infamous “Unknown Ideal”, out from the woodwork crawl the self-appointed defenders of capitalism and lovers of privately owned MoP and labor exploitation. To them I say “Patch the bugs, patch the bugs!” It is a duty that comes with the mantle they draped themselves in.
Capitalism massively rewards exploiting its bugs and loopholes. Whether that’s fossil fuel’s underaccounted environmental costs, the network effect’s mandatorialization, or the human suffering under labor value-add extraction. So the capital owners themselves are not going to do it. But their mouth pieces, demagogues, think tanks, lobbyists, ideologues, and policy wonks are on the hook for this and need to be held accountable.
I might come across as half a century too late with this stuff because “capitalism is good actually and tax is theft” might on a discourse level seem like a dying political idea (replaced by blatant xenophobia) but it lives on in policy where the owners and haves are still on their never-ending crusade to loot the public coffers in the name of tax breaks for the richest.