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Piker and that scottish dude does some decent short takedowns of loons like that Tawny Larper or whatever her name is, bleached outrage queen on fox now. The Damage Report is ok too. https://www.youtube.com/use...

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Again, thanks for the feedback. Your take is very accurate. However, I was going less for academic accuracy and more for using words to make a point. Kirk used "capitalist" and I followed up on that.

Also, while your description fits economic systems, it still leaves a gap when describing individual parts that make up an economy. This is especially an issue when an economic system contains both capitalist and socialist factors. Britannica has a broader definition of socialism that is more in line with my usage.https://www.britannica.com/...

I am not an economic expert, but I know a lot about words. When I was a technical writer I was more interested in properly instructing our customers on the use and maintenance of a product than I was on using the correct engineering term or jargon (no one can understand engineers anyway).

Quality can be described as "fitness for use." In this sense a McDonald's hamburger is high-quality (cheap, fast, widely available) even though it's not a particularly good hamburger. I believe that my wording met the quality requirements for what I wanted to say. If I were writing an economic thesis I probably would have chosen differently.

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