Should public transportation be free?

[Anomalocaris]

Some of us recognize that we are not, in any accurate sense, living in a capitalist system.

Corporate feudalism does not equal capitalism.  This is what threatens our species…at present.

True, the laissez-faire capitalism of Adam Smith no longer exists in the Western World.  Even though no politician will not admit it (at least in the United States), we've drifted towards more and more to Marxism (end to child labor, national income tax) over the last 150 years.

laissez-faire Capitalism is a internally contradictory schema that embodies within itself all the forces needed to inexorably moves any economy and society attempting to structure itself to achieve laissez-faire towards oligarchy and monopoly.