Part I of this series featured Dan Hannan explaining how the emergence of capitalism led to mass prosperity, while Part II featured Madeline Grant explaining how competition and cooperation make markets so successful.
Today, in Part III, Andy Puzder compares capitalism with socialism.
The core theoretical argument in the video is that capitalism is based on serving the needs of consumers.
As captured by one of my favorite quotes from Professor Walter Williams, 
you only make yourself better off in a free market system by serving others.
In a socialist system, by contrast, the only people who get rich are the government elites who plunder the people.
I also like that the video explains that Nordic nations are not socialist. As I’ve also pointed out, there’s no government ownership, central planning, and price controls in nations such as Sweden and Denmark.
Those countries do have higher…
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