Brent Roberts
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

I agree with more in this article than in past. Greed exists in capitalism just as it does in other systems. We need checks and balances to ensure greed doesn’t gum up the gears.

I would like to point out one serious flaw. It’s easy to tell when you let emotion take over your writing.

You claim that profits “on the back of the pincer movement of cheap luxuries and absurdly expensive necessities were soaring, to heights never seen before. As a result, the stock market boomed.”

Really? Do y9u consider Facebook, Google, Amazon to be peddling absurdly expensive necessities? Because these are the types of companies that are driving the stock market boom. Apple, although expensive, isn’t peddling a necessity or ateast there are other options. People buy them by choice.

The stock market has boomed because capitalism has allowed these global behemoths to be created on our soil.