@Poo: ...Um. Did you mean to quote someone else? I am neither of those things. 🤔
Maybe I overinterpretated a bit, but I got the feeling you were angling towards a "There is no true capitalist system in the planet!" kind of argument. Which is a mirror image of the "there is no true socialist system on the planet!" cop out.
Anddd... after rereading I think you *ARE* saying that in fact. Maybe it´s exaggerated to say you´re a Randroid, just like it would be exaggerated to call someone a tankie just for advocating socialism, I´ll grant you that and withdraw that terminology. Aand apologize for it.
But come on, "nanny states"? Try to file a claim to paypal against a dubious company abroad, and you´ll get first hand experience of what you get when checks and balances against corporations are removed.
Actually scratch that. Save your money and look at the subprime crisis of 2009. That´s what unregulated free market looks like. It does, in fact, result in rather crappy and inefficient results. You want the state to keep the corporations from going full robber baron (which they will if you let them). You also want the state to provide infrastructure and social services, and tax the corporations to fund those (which is completely legit. Those corporations are operating *because* there´s a infrastructure and an educated, healthy, worker base. And no they can´t be expected or trusted to sort this out themselves. Let me put it this way: would you trust with your life a lunatic like Elon Musk?
Unregulated capitalism is self destructive and not really operative medium term. TBH despite the argument being often put the the other way around, I think it´s far more antagonical with human nature than any hypothetical socialist system, simply because left to their own devices humans are dicks and will ruin everything for short term gain. Heck, the US is living through that right now: the country was reopened because some people were very worried about a drop in their profits, and NOW there will be a drop in their profits AND a huge pile of dead people.