Here's the problem as I see it, there are different sectors of our national life and they have unique concerns. Trying to apply one model to all sectors ensures failure for all of them.
Business\Economic Sector - concerned with benefitting those who have the money to invest more. If you are not an investor, you are a servant to those who are.
Government Sector - concerned with benefitting the most number of people. It provides infrastructure and military protection that no individual can afford. It mediates conflicts between individual rights and corporate interests.
Healthcare\Social Services Sector - concerned with benefitting the greater society by assisting those who cannot physically or financially aid themselves.
Education Sector - concerned with benefitting the society as a whole by providing the future generation with skills and knowledge that will be needed to physically and financially benefit themselves and others.
Capitalism is a great model, for the Business Sector. It is absolutely the right model to apply there. But the last few administrations have all made the critical error of trying to apply the right model for the Business Sector to the other three sectors, where it is not helpful and in most cases is actually detrimental.
Government operating to benefit investors is universally recognized as corruption. Government is supposed to regulate industry and require individual sacrifice in return for providing social stability and reliable economic growth.
Healthcare\Social Services operating to benefit investors is in direct opposition to the foundational goals of benefitting the society as a whole by taking care of the people who cannot take care of themselves.
Education operating to benefit investors creates a foundational rift between the rich and the poor that ensures eventual revolution.
Perhaps there should be a separation between Business and State even more clearly than we need and require the separation between Church and State.
