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You should read his book, I don't know if he had any philosophy. The guy just rambled on, using sentences and compound nouns as big as paragraphs. I am convinced he barely had a clue what he was talking about, but was just enjoying the ride offered by the fact that no one could understand what he was saying either, and assumed this was because he was smarter than them.

The current 'system' is just your run of the mill mixed socialism and capitalism, be it in China, the US, Britain, Japan, Europe, Australia, wherever. Politicians understand that if they exert too much control over an economy (such as the full-bore socialist experiments), the economy completely collapses, people starve etc etc. But they also know that under full-capitalism, although the economy will be the most productive and wealthy, there will be much much fewer politicians and bureaucrats.

So here we are.