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You put into exact words what I always had in my head but hadn't articulated. So very true about all products and companies around us.

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Just remember that Darwinism is a morally neutral process: evolution only cares about the survival of the entities in question. Likewise, capitalism thrives when businesses thrive; everything else is just a means to an end.

Not saying it's bad... just neutral. And it may have very good consequences for society as a whole. The only danger is believing the process is "good" in of itself.

Capitalism isn't morally neutral because it concerns collectives of moral agents (companies), their goals and the goals of their customers and those they interact with.

Evolution operates on genes, an amoral physical process.

Capitalism is the operation of people, a morally-laden process.

The only thing evolution and markets have in common is that the terms 'selection process' and 'organism' apply to both. And even then, they mean different things. Don't take the analogy too seriously.

Right, they are very different things. GP's point about morality stands, though: it's orthogonal to both markets and evolution.

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