Even now I'm still satisfied with what we have, because it could be alot worse. It could be alot better, yes, but given the other choices at the moment I'm satisfied with what we have. And yes even your free market American capitalism isn't all that free market. Capitalism is a form of anarchy. A completely free market means no financial regulations, no anti monopoly laws, no rent control, no laws against price fixing or insider trading, and no minimum wage, and under a government, you would only pay taxes to the government for keeping people from killing eachother - nothing against minimum hygiene standards and there would be no things such as a trade embargo or arms embargo or
economic sanctions, which committed by the US on Russia, for example, is a form of fascism or authoritarianism, which again, goes against the free market. So if during the Cold War the debate between Communists and Capitalist was not only an economic one but an ideological one, then the US supporting sanctions against Russia would be a very anti-capitalistic move, but that is also a matter of perspective, as economic sanctions can also be considered a form of...economic warfare? Such as say a hostile takeover of a company in American capitalism, or teaming up to take on the competition until they go bankrupt like Sears did or aquiring competitors.

and of course the poodle's will is written by it's owner and it says the inheritance all goes to the politician that gave them the contract to work, in terms of campaign contributions, or that politician's personal charitable foundation. So now not only do you get paid millions of dollars in stolen money, you do it in a way that the public applauds you like idiots and says "what great of a country that we live in, while other politicians in other countries are dictators and steal from their people while their people starve and they all have companies, ours are just humble public servants who give all their millions left over from campaign contributions to charitable organizations". Of course, your charitable organization has a fee that they collect for administrative costs and overhead and whatnot, which could be anything they want, from 1 cent on the dollar to 99 cents on the dollar. But they'll probably collect something like those commercials with the sad woman singing a lullaby in the background while a rich guy in khakis goes around a poor village with his camera crew filming people dying and making a sad face and telling people they need our help and how you should donate, and then you check the website and it says that 80 cents on the dollar goes towards the charitable causes, which is reasonable. That means out of 2 million dollars, they only collect $400,000, and $1.6 million goes to charitable causes. Now because the US' modus operandi in terms of stealing money and oppressing people and basically everything has to do with statistical science more than anything - you multiply 5 dollars by millions of people and you're instantly rich. When it comes to politics, multiply millions of dollars by multiple contributors, and you don't have to worry about that 80 percent of actual charity as long as you line your pockets with the millions of dollars in fees you collected in your charitable organization. People don't complain when there's charitable money being spend charitably, but when hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money that could've gone to save lives and help the poor gets misappropriated? And unspent? That's a problem.

So instead of addressing these issues as well, people tend to be happy with the minimum wage hike, because in our oppressive society that's considered a generous reward, and they hope that people overlook all these other issues that lets robber baron employers get away with blood sucking practices, and the majority of people do overlook this, and that's enough, because the minority who don't overlook it, like me, tend to be either silenced or ignored, either through no reply from the government after sending letters or petitions, or vague responses that say they're sorry to hear about my situation or that they're aware of something in the community or that they're doing everything they can or most likely just a summary of a new law they proudly put into place, like me asking them ok you increased the minimum wage but now people are getting laid off and the prices are getting raised what are you doing to stop them instead of just collecting fines? They'll reply to that with a summary of the new minimum wage law, and how they hope that the letter was satisfactory, or some professionally written BS stone walling or avoiding like that.Or they'll put up beaurocratic obstacles, like long waits for responses, or lack of information in the letter or something stupid, and make you give up. Or worst case scenario they'll label you a political dissident and randomly send the police to your door a few times a year to "question you" about your neighbors complaints, or write up bogus search warrants, harass you, arrest you, raid you, shoot your dog, shoot your retarded son, then apologize for botching an investigation and tell you it's a false report. You sue them and after 8 years of legal nonsense only get $20,000 in compensation for your son's death. In the mean time they set up good old boys companies to work contracts for the government, prolong things like construction projects for as long as possible YET get paid on the clock instead of per job completed, and it turns out the construction company was your sister in law's boyfriend's cousin's and the millions of dollars they owe you for your cut would be suspicious if paid in cash so they just put it on the 9 year old poodle with the hip problems' name and that they don't have time to walk so the poodle at age 9 looks like it's 26 years old and even though it's white it has even whiter hairs from stress so it dies soon.

The point is to provide a reasonable standard of living for minimum wage workers according to CURRENT PRICES. But in capitalism, having things like weak workers laws, weak competition laws and weak laws against profiteering, results in companies laying people off and raising prices in retaliation, even though they comply with the minimum wage hike. So in essence, forcing people to comply with one law makes them break others. It's basically one way to inflict inflation upon one's own nation. There is a point, overall, to help the poor and struggling citizens, like myself, who is self educated because I can't afford an education, yet my self education cannot serve as a foundation for getting a job that requires a university degree, which is the catch 22 in itself. In Capitalist countries they do raise the minimum wage periodically, but then loopholes in the system allow for companies to just raise prices, which is against socialist type laws like competition laws which prevents monopolies and price fixing cartels(especially by multiple large corporations which end up influencing the prices of other large, medium and small businesses across the board due to the mechanics of macro-economics), rent control(which prevents landlords from hiking rent by more than say a few percent annually, because there have been cases where people would pay say $1500 a month all of a sudden next year they hike that tenant's rent to $3000 a month because of huge demand in the area and people willing to pay increased prices, leading to people becoming homeless because they didn't have enough time or notice to financially plan to move or get another place in time or were barely making ends meet already and had debt), so on and so fourth, while legal bribery like campaign contributions and "lobbying" have a huge influence on keeping these laws weak, yet in place, so people can't say wait a minute, we don't have anti blood sucking laws, to which the corporations and government would say: Yeah we do. It's right here. And that would shut people up, even though the laws themselves are weakly enforced or not enforced at all, and for a country like the US that prides itself on being an effective police state(check the statistics in terms of percentage of white males over the age of 12 having been arrested), it's unusual not to enforce something when you have an unhealthy obsession with "enforcing".