Question ?

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Does the fact that our respective governments are now in effect nationalising these companies via the provision of state funding signal the end of capitalism as we know it, has capitalism as we know it had its day, and if so what is the viable alternative ?

Not until it goes to the extremes that the comunists took to nationalize, which didnt end in anything other than failure ultimately.

Even then capitalisum remained in a black market format.

In fact technically (alltough arguable) the only real ecomnomic system that has ever functioned in practice has been capitalism, even before coinage was used.

It is very hard to develope a different economic system that will provide true worker incentive. Perhaps a militerized economy with ranks and rates of pay would work to an extent, but inovations would be far less dynamic.

Furturists like to think of different possible systems that may function (like gene roddenbury, etc) but the problem is that these many purposals only look good in theory (as comunisim did) and don't take into account every possible factor that will make the realities of implementation far far different in practice.