Blaming immoral behavior on an economic system is absurd. Changing the economic system will not prevent people from stealing and cheating. Changing capitalism will not prevent corruption. Eliminating capitalism will not improve the lot of the poor.
Do you believe that there was no corruption, cheating or stealing in the former Soviet Union? Do you think that government officials had the same standard of living as the poor? Do you think that there were no poor? Black markets existed and immoral behavior was possibly more rampant than it is here.
Do you think that the poor in Cuba are better off than the poor in the US?
There is no place in the world better then the US to be poor.
The problems with corruption are not caused by capitalism, or any other economic system for that matter. Corruption is prevalent because as someone else stated, we let them get away with it.
The people in this country have become apathetic and uninformed and keep electing the same people over and over. That is why we have corruption and immoral behavior.
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