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Can someone point out why I'm being downvoted? Or respond to my comment rather than just shutting down discourse?

Perhaps your criticism of the bad comment was too rhetorical.

You write dismissively of capitalism is my first note.

Capitalism isn't the boogie man people make it out to be. It's the optimization criteria for increasing financial capital over other forms of capital (natural, labor, etc), and corporatocracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy

Is writing dismissively of capitalism not OK? Can you make the argument that capitalism was and is always a force of good in the world? Is plutocracy considered a good and righteous thing?

OK, continue to downvote rather than articulate any kind of intelligent response.

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