“The fact is that for most of history the question had been how we could produce enough to feed people, to house people, to clothe people,” she said. “And capitalism, it turns out, was a great answer. It had some serious drawbacks but it worked better than anything else people tried.” “Like what kind of drawbacks?” Eleanor explained about exploitation and inequality, and how while capitalism brought out the philanthropy in some, it mostly brought out people’s greed. “Especially as corporations focused more and more on shareholder profit and forgot about the greater good,” she said.
