How to fix capitalism

Capitalism in this country doesn't really exist *right now*. The government interferes so much with the market, and politicians are so paid off, I wouldn't consider our economic system true capitalism.

Sure, except the same free market whiners would fulfill that namesake even more if the economy were in recession half the time as it was back in the day before gubmint intervention.

And guess what, they'll still blame it on the gubmint even if there weren't one.

capitalism does not allow for the government to "pick winners", whether they be individuals, organizations, or corporations.

Capitalism does NOT need to be fixed. It is working just fine.

It's my personal opinion that capitalism in this country is broken. We've reached a point where companies have grown so large, and control such large portions of the market, that the "competitive market" portion of capitalism is quickly disappearing. The result seems to be that the price of a service is drastically outpacing how much it costs a provider to provide that service. From Internet, to Electricity, to Gas, to Cable/Satellite.

in that case, it needs to be done away with entirely. capitalism working as intended is detrimental for the majority of the people in a capitalistic society.

This isn't capitalism at fault but rather government protected monopolies. The only thing really not a monopoly is gas, and if you go to a region supplied by many different refineries, prices are lower, due to the free marker and supply/demand.

Just dumping Corporate welfare alone would put the US under such a surplus that we wouldn't have to worry about other 'entitlement' programs, heck we could probly even afford a Proper universal healthcare

Please explain how this is true.

Unless there's a shortage of labor (which is very rarely the case), people who don't own capital are paid at the lowest possible rate they would work for against the threat of starvation. Anything more would be irrational.

So you don't think employers have to compete for employees? Are you of the opinion that an employee has to stay working for his employer his whole life?

I think you're ignoring the other side of the equation where individuals develop skills and market themselves to others in an effort to get jobs that pay more money.

The competition is only meaningful is there's a shortage of labor. In our case, an artificially induced shortage (by the gubmint, btw).

It's very unlikely you have skills who can't be developed for much less $ in, say, India. They even speak the same language.

That's garbage. Even when there is high unemployment people switch jobs from one employer to the next for a better work environment (whether that's pay, hours, benefits, etc.)

They are a part of the equation. We are in a global economy. I've worked very closely with people from India, and the individuals I've worked with change employers very frequently.

Over the past few decades, rising countries in Asia have looked to American and European systems of social services as something more or less to aspire to. But as both the U.S. and European safety nets fray under staggering budget deficits, unfulfilled promises to public-sector workers, and unsustainable healthcare costs, countries like China and India are realizing that they may need to find alternatives to the blue social model.
As the Economist reports, they are taking this search seriously:
Last October Indonesia’s government promised to provide all its citizens with health insurance by 2014. It is building the biggest “single-payer” national health scheme—where one government outfit collects the contributions and foots the bills—in the world. In just two years China has extended pension coverage to an additional 240m rural folk, far more than the total number of people covered by Social Security, America’s public-pension system. A few years ago about 80% of people in rural China had no health insurance. Now virtually everyone does. In India some 40m households benefit from a government scheme to provide up to 100 days’ work a year at the minimum wage, and the state has extended health insurance to some 110m poor people, more than double the number of uninsured in America.
If you take Germany’s introduction of pensions in the 1880s as the beginning and Britain’s launch of its National Health Service in 1948 as the apogee, the creation of Europe’s welfare states took more than half a century. Some Asian countries will build theirs in a decade. If they get things wrong, especially through unaffordable promises, they could wreck the world’s most dynamic economies. But if they create affordable safety nets, they will not just improve life for their own citizens but also become role models themselves. At a time when governments in the rich world are failing to redesign states to cope with ageing populations and gaping budget deficits, this could be another area where Asia leapfrogs the West....