Maryland abolishes death penalty.

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You have absolutely zero understanding of how the capitalist system works.

Nice selfie.

The big issue with u to capitalism is that it requires increasing consumption. Capitalism requires you to buy a stereo which brakes down after 2 years after which the best (cheapest) option is to buy a new one.

So weird, Japan has gotten so much shit over it because there was no economic growth, even though the country was wealthy enough.

Anyway, this is the reason why I am always in favor of a mixed system where the government has the power to steer things which it thinks are important.
Of course, you can run into problems here when eg your government thinks it is a good idea to spend billions of dollars to invade Iraq because it says that the 9/11 terrorists were supported from there, but it will probably be better than the choices the market makes.
The market as it is now will not include costs of natural resources or environment in its cost calculations.

The market will solve things in the end is not good enough for me.
If we now know for example that people in Africa are dying while we buy their agricultural lands by paying money to some high officials who put most of this in their own pocket and we see the market doesn't do anything about it or when we know we are warming up our planet to dangerous levels because we are not willing to invest more in alternative energy sources we can safely say the free market is not able to solve things.

Going green or saving Africa if we knowingly let things get out of hand must be enough for us to say, let's stop this now.
But if you very sec just look at the economy the market works fine of course. Economist are the most powerful people on earth, the pity is only that they are pretty ignorant when it comes to things outside of their expertise area.