Is Capitalism Actually Helping Us Reach Our Goals?

“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller

As its greatest proponents will tell you often, America supports capitalism, and the capitalism we believe in is supported by the “free market”. If we’re going to use the market to its fullest potential, before moving forward, we should at least glean what we can from its greatest advocates. In Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman stated that the role of the market, “is that it…