Mark Sumner, who writes the Daily Kos Abbreviated Pundit Roundup on Sundays, made this comment after one of his links, and it’s hard to make it simpler:
I live in a capitalist system, yes, but if we really believe there’s nothing better than a system in which 90+ percent of people spend the bulk of their waking hours working to meet their basic needs for decade after decade, all through their lives, that’s genuinely sad.