People ideologically aligned with Ocasio-Cortez and others like her often cite the vulnerability of capitalist economic systems to political lobbying, and thus corruption. This is, at best, 99 percent wrong. All economic and political systems are susceptible to corruption—but only capitalist systems are capable of self-correction. The railroad lobby was influential until the invention of the car. The coal lobby was vastly more influential before the invention of hydraulic fracking. The oil and gas lobby will become less effective once we innovate our way to cheap, high-quality green
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