Thanks for reading.

You need a bigger window and a less broad brush.

What's good for America is good for General Motors. Failing to raise the debt ceiling - even having a debt ceiling to fail to raise - is bad for America and, therefore, bad for GM. If smarter voters will get us a government that works, capitalists will do just fine. What they want and what is good for them are sometimes very two different things. (The minimum wage has made many merchants very rich.)

If you are serious about what system is best, I suggest you think about how systems evolve, not what their players think they want. I don't worry that workers want to live in the Big Rock Candy Mountains (where they hung the jerk who invented work). Maybe you shouldn't worry about what "capitalists like."