Remember this, the next time someone tells you that the market (and, thus, capitalism) failed:

Capitalism cannot fail, because it is not a philosophy or a construction, it is simply a systematization of reality.

Capitalism cannot break, because it is the fundamental mechanism by which things work. The universe would have to fundamentally change, for this fact to change.

The whole post is more of the same, and not particularly long, but it’s definitely worth reading and memorizing so you can use it to counter socialists^[a] who say capitalism failed.

1. Unlike capitalism, Socialism is an unnatural system, and will inevitably fall prey to entropy. It’s just a question of how many people it kills in the process. [↩]