In his recent book Why Not Capitalism, philosophy Professor Jason Brennan makes a compelling case for Capitalism as the ideal state for any society. To do so, he takes apart the argument for Socialism from both moral and practical perspectives and argues that capitalism remains the ideal system.
Brennan understands that a major criticism of Capitalism is how it glorifies the selfishness of human nature. Capitalism is bad, we must do good, hence we must remove all capitalistic elements from our society, as many socialist would have us believe.
Yet another criticism is that Capitalism makes a few better off at the expenses of many. Brennan resists this. He shares with us a elegant experiment he does with his undergraduate class.
As students file into the classroom, he would give each of them a different candy bar. He would then ask them to rate the candy bar they have received, ......