Comment by ben_w
11 hours ago
> As is often said, capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.
I've only heard it said that "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time", not capitalism and economics: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
The Churchill line is about democracy, but the adapted version is a common variation. It works as a standalone maxim without need of attribution to some famous person.
It works insofar as quotes that sound wise but have no kind of evidence backing it up often do.
Such quotes are the worst form of quotes, except for all the other kinds.
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> the adapted version is a common variation
Got any evidence for that?
NYT (opinion), 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/dont-quote-them-o...
Forbes, 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yuwahedrickwong/2019/04/19/econ...
NPR, 2009: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/26/114163098/a-spoonful-of-socia...
LSE Economics Society essay question, 2018: https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/lse-economics-society...
I also clicked through ten pages of Google search results for "capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others", each of which showed the literal quotes in the preview excerpts, at which point I became too bored to continue.