Quote Originally Posted by AmericanPride View Post
But let's be clear, everyone here (assuming everyone is a civil servant of some kind) is really not a capitalist in practice.
Most of us here are participants in a nominally capitalist economic system... of course there has never been a truly capitalist economy, just as there has never been a truly socialist economy.

Why would you assume that "everyone is a civil servant of some kind"? Seems a bizarre assumption to make. I for one am neither servile nor particularly civil.

Quote Originally Posted by AmericanPride View Post
And further, my criticisms of capitalist practices have been narrowed to runaway finance capitalism, which is certainly not the end-all be-all of human nature.
I've seen no such qualification in your previous references to capitalism.