That's about as sophisticated an economic analysis as you might expect from Hollywood. However, social media and the social sciences rarely rise above comic book level. Over the years, I have gotten used to facing the most bizarre associations when talking about free- market capitalism. I am not overly fond of the term "capitalism" myself--after all, it's about exchange rather than capital--but I've realized that the term has staying power, and if we don't fill it with meaning, others will. Often "capitalism" is just a lazy invective for anything bad done by a powerful business (including corporate subsidies or eminent domain), even though the whole point of free- market capitalism is to deprive the powerful of monopolies and privileges through competition and free trade.
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