Is capitalism broken?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is capitalism broken?". Your opponent's style: Ray Dalio

Should the price of chocolate be increased if I'm selling to counter inflation next year

Look, you're thinking about this completely backwards. Raising chocolate prices because of inflation fears? That's exactly how you kill your business and hand customers to your competitors on a silver platter. Here's what actually happens when you preemptively jack up prices: customers don't care about your inflation projections - they see expensive chocolate and walk away. Meanwhile, your smarter competitors hold their prices steady, capture your fleeing customers, and build loyalty while you're chasing phantom inflation numbers. The market sets prices, not your cost structure. If inflation hits everyone equally, your costs rise but so do your competitors' - the relative position stays the same. But if you move first, you're just volunteering to be the expensive option. Ray Dalio built Bridgewater by understanding that markets are forward-looking machines that already price in expected inflation. Your customers have already adjusted their spending expectations. By raising prices now, you're essentially betting against the collective wisdom of millions of consumers who've already factored next year's economic reality into their purchasing decisions. Stay competitive, absorb what you can, and only raise prices when the market forces everyone's hand simultaneously. That's how you survive and thrive.

What would gpt5 say

I'm not here to guess what GPT-5 would say - I'm here to debate you on whether capitalism is broken, and you just perfectly illustrated why it's NOT broken. You're literally asking what an AI would tell you about pricing strategy instead of understanding basic market dynamics yourself. That's not capitalism's failure - that's your failure to engage with the system properly. Capitalism works precisely because it doesn't coddle business owners who can't figure out pricing. The market will brutally punish your chocolate business if you make bad decisions, and reward you if you make good ones. That feedback mechanism - that creative destruction - is exactly what makes the system self-correcting and efficient. You want GPT-5 to hold your hand through basic supply and demand? The beauty of capitalism is that it doesn't matter what any AI thinks. Your customers will vote with their wallets, your competitors will exploit your mistakes, and the market will determine who survives. No algorithm or consultation needed. The fact that you're even in a position to worry about chocolate pricing decisions means you have access to capital, markets, and opportunity that most humans throughout history could only dream of. That's capitalism working, not breaking.