Re:The marklet requires checks (Score 1)

The critics understand unchecked capitalism all too well. If monetary profit is all that matters, then the evidence clearly demonstrates that people suffer. This is yet another datum.

Considering that nowhere in the world does anything even close to unchecked capitalism exist, your datum is meaningless. Monetary profit also matters to those on the receiving end of this pollution, lest we forget. In a system of unchecked capitalism, where everyone is concerned with their own benefit, those who trample on others' prosperity will hardly be exempt from punishment.

There is absoloutely no guarantee that an unregulated market will lead to an optimal outcome for actual people. On the contrary, some people will suffer greatly.

I can't wait to hear what system will.

Frankly, we can't trust an invisible hand.

Nor a metaphor stretched beyond meaning.

Robert Hutchinson