No, capitalism cannot be captured. It’s a theory, and idea with tenets and principles. It can function under its tenets or fail to do so…it does not get a divine pass because the fruits don’t match what’s in people’s head.
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Right, if its captured it then ceases to be capitalism
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Unfortunately, if something continues to fail, whether you blame it on the boogie man, man’s nature, or whatever it might be…that thing itself is a failure. Is that not the capitalist mindset, if the market rejects it, then it must not be valuable to the market.
Again and like you said, its not the idea or the principles of capitalism, it's the human action.
Because human action strays from ethical behavior or voluntary human action, doesn't mean it was capitalism's fault.
Why the theory of capitalism fails is the same reason all others fail, the human action