To be capitalistic is to be deregulated; almost every nation in history and across all of history has never been anything more than mixed economy, and more often than not has gone towards central planning and centralisation in general
There has never been something highly capitalist 99% of the time, and more often than not folks mistakenly call extremely tyrannical dictatorships which are absurdly economically exploitative capitalistic because they think that money, slavery and so on, means capitalism
It was defined as those systems which have private property, however, so if you take the definition intended, it would mean all systems ever tied were capitalistic, and that you're having a whole new conversation
Which is why I don't tend to like labels because folks don't talk about things that mean anything but rather nitpick them
We have regulationism that leads to monopolies and this is the fault of anti-regulationists...
We have minimum wages that lead to high barrier to entry for workers and bosses and this is the fault of anti-minimum wagers
We have low competition and low opportunity because of high start up costs because of licensing, unreasonable health and safety, copyright and so on, and this is the fault of those that are against copytright, licensing, health and safety and so on
You may well be right that a non-regulatory environment always leads to a regulatory one but by saying the solution is regulating harder you're missing that regulation is what makes everything so awful
Regulating harder would be doubling down, you could at best say ''politics is hopeless''
In what way is the state an expression of anything except an unchecked power structure and the accumlation of wealth / power and the abuse of others through it?
You mean to tell me making a bigger and stronger state would be anything less than making a King even more absolute?
The idea has never been more capitalism
No big companies like capitalism
They like fixing prices, something common in Socialists, and in large governments, something done by the progressives, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin, Herbert Hoover, and so on, George Bush gave lots of handouts, they all did, they fixed many prices, gave many subsidies, they set up anti-compete laws, strengthened copyright, upped the minimum wage
Who lobbied for minimum wage? It was people like Jeff Bezos, Amazon at large.
Where did Food Health and Safety standards start? With some guy named Frank in Midwest America who was selling beef to his neighbour and thought i should really have to go through tens of thousands of dollars of checks annually for my cows to be able to sell this beef, or was it the biggest ranchers in America at the time?
Libertarianism isn't anti-capitalist at all, Libertarianism is extremely pro-capitalist, or if you'd like a new word, anti-regulationism and pro-free maret
Almost all establishments are anti-capitalist, it goes against their own power, anything that wants more power will gain more rights over economy, trade, working, of course they would want to own such things
In what world is a King who sets tariffs and deductions and taxes and so on, a capitalist?
Unless by capitalist you mean someone with a lot of capital
In which case, yes, highly controlling, highly overgrown, highly centralised authorities are indeed the biggest capitalists around
But what allowed to get all of that? It was no taxes? No regulations about taxes? It was no tariffs? Really? You mean to tell me all the fat cats got big off none of that? That a system in which you weren't allowed to do such things led to this? Really?
Do tell how right now we haev the most extreme wealth disparity ever and the worst aggregate inflation, amongst many other benchmarks, and yet the most complicated legislature and highest amount of regulation in history, if what you say is so true?
When's the last time you recall the government saying nope, we've gone too far with car safety standards and mandating them, and we're sick of lobbying! So we're getting rid of it, and we're allowing cars to be built without this year's latest sensor systems and safety features.
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