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So your justification for capitalism is that we derive taxes from it to fund the services that capitalism is incapable of providing in the first place? And this is supposed to be a positive element of capitalism? Are you serious?

Do you think labour driven value springs out of thin air? Workers produce value through labour, and the surplus value is absorbed by capital owners. Would labour cease to exist without free market economics? No. The current model requires the taxation of markets to fund services because we live in a capitalist country. You need to actually think critically about this. The resources necessary for public services to function pail in comparison to the labour value taken by private capital owners. Public services are crumbling despite private capital owners being wealthier than ever before. We have the potential to utilise to many resources, yet private capital dictates that we can't.

You talk about innovation and the supply chain being facilitated by capitalism but again, this is just not true. The industrial revolution was not driven by private capital. The state constructed the rail lines, the state built the canals and the infrastructure to facilitate markets. You should do some research before making your arguments because, and I'm sorry if this is insulting but, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.