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44520297 | 7 months ago

All of language is tenuous overlap between speaker intent and listener interpretation. In this instance, how do you interpret the definition of capitalism for this context? Better to add meaning.

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HPsquared|7 months ago

Money in politics. An excess of political power in the halls of commerce as opposed to the other estates of the realm.

Arch-TK|7 months ago

In cases like these it's sufficient to substitute "capitalism" for "crony capitalism". However, the people making these statements are unlikely to ever agree that there can exist a non-crony-capitalism.