Faults with Capitalists Lead to Regulation As long as human society places 'value' on goods and services, some form of capitalism will always be here. In a free society, however, capitalism should be heavily regulated to preserve the overall system. Capitalists, by themselves, have traits in common with royalty of the past, and royalty did not like to admit it was wrong about anything. For a few centuries before the creation of the USA, most of the capitalism in the western world was in the hands of monarchs and noblemen. Royalty was, in basic terms, capitalists who ran the government. If the subjects of the realm did not like the fact that money deals were done behind closed doors, that was too bad. The freedom in the USA gave the privilege of capitalism to the common people. Naturally, some individuals pursued wealth as a symbol of 'power', as i...
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