What are the virtues of capitalism, better referred to as market economics?

Should Christians be capitalist?

Scott, people have asked us to talk about this.

You wrote a book called The Virtues of Capitalism, which makes your position clear.

This is part two.

Let's hope so.

In part one, we did a critique of a book about why Christians should be leftist.

Now we want to kind of give a positive moral case for why Christians should embrace market

economics.

Now, with that says, I'm really curious, is socialism making a comeback?

And why do you think it is?

Well, I think it is making a comeback, but among Gen Z.

And the reason is because I think of historical myopia.

Fair enough.

You know, I grew up in the, you know, I was born in the 50s, grew up in the 60s and

70s at the height of communism and watched, you just watched it fail.

In fact, I was, in 1972, I was in Czechoslovakia, and I watched what socialism had done in the country.

Sean, you'd be amazed at the number of people who were standing around doing nothing

and being paid virtually nothing for it.

And the number of people who were under-employed

was just staggering. And the lack of the lack of goods on the shelves, I mean, it was clear

that the system was failing. I saw that personally, by the way, going to Russia 13 times,

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