Talk:Week Six Wiki/@comment-39598328-20190702185606

I completely understand that the behaviors of the individuals involved in the college admissions scandal were very unethical and illegal. Their behavior clearly deserves punishment. However, the issue that I have with this is the unethical behavior of the podcast creators and the language that they have chosen to use. This scandal has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism. “Gangster” capitalism is a made-up phrase used in an obvious attempt to turn people, mostly young people, against the idea of capitalism. There is no such thing as “gangster” capitalism or “crony” capitalism, there is only capitalism. Capitalism is a great concept of freedom and free trade among consenting individuals. Once fraud and theft are introduced into capitalism it ceases to be capitalism and then becomes criminal activity. I think that the objective of the podcast as well as mainstream media is to demonize capitalism and blame everything on “rich people privilege” in the name of a socialist agenda to brainwash people and sadly it is working. This situation involves the criminal activity of a few individuals and is not at all related to capitalism.