Base instincts in humans won't allow pure capitalism to work and the tradeoff is declining freedoms as regulations increase. Capitalism is superior as an economic system when participation is highest and regulations are evenly distributed, something that has been declining for decades, possibly signaling an ultimate socialist outcome in the U.S. The irony: in all systems it's believed that elected officials will/can fix this but very few have the altruistic ability to put citizens first and instead, those same base instincts create the marriage of politician and corporation to give us our current crony-capitalism..