>If not, why is so much criticism directed at Amazon specifically, rather than at capitalism itself?
What's the point of criticizing capitalism if there are no viable alternatives?
What's the point of criticizing capitalism if there are no viable alternatives?
Even believing that it is the best of all systems we've thought of (which I do) does not preclude one from optimising its specifics.
The worst damage they and their ilk did was to convince the entire political spectrum from the centre-left to the far right that there is no alternative to free market fundamentalism.
I don't have a tried and tested alternative for you, but the idea that there are no alternatives is ludicrous to me.
We just need to be actually looking for these alternatives, which the corporate world has no interest in doing and the politicians in their pockets merely continue the theatrics of fixing a system that blatantly isn't working for anyone but the amassers of capital.
And before anyone loses their shit because I'm criticising the plutocracy we have allowed to be built in our names, nor I'm not a communist; no do I wish for a communist system.
I'm reminded of that comic with the cats on trial. Capitalism sucks in many ways, but it sucks a hell of a lot less than the alternatives we've tried. Same with democracy.
> Capitalism sucks in many ways, but it sucks a hell of a lot less than the alternatives we've tried. Same with democracy.
And that's fine, but I'm not so narrow-minded as to accept that there are no alternatives. History is replete with people patching up broken systems in futility; all because they could see no other way than the status quo.