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Then it sounds like you have little basis for claiming that the existing technology of the developed world was created by capitalism, as rightists are prone to do. What hasn't existed and will never exist is your "pure capitalism." Real capitalism has and continues to exist and malfunction in a large variety of ways, however.
No, but countries have been successful when they try to emulate capitalism and respect the laws of supply and demand.
No one referred to government dictate as an example of traditional capitalism. It's true that the same hierarchical framework that capitalism involves is restored in such an arrangement, with an oligopolistic arrangement of an elite few resource controllers determining how they will be allocated in both instances. But we would better label a command economy "state capitalist" in nature and make the necessary distinction.
Why do you ignore the fluidity of the classes in a capitalist nation (or a nation that tries to emulate capitalism)?