Can pure capitalism exist without exploiting the poor?

Fast food workers definitely do not deserve $15 /hr. The only that will do is drive prices across the bored. Its always relative. Minimum wage was never designed to provide a roof. Adults who are earning minimum wage often lack the skills to work in a better field. Capitalism is about opportunity to make a better life by busting your butt and earning (trust fund kids are a different story). Want a better job, get an education or you will be left behind. With that said, the disparity between rich and poor will always be prevalent in any type of system. Even in socialist countries there is a disparity between rich and poor. Socialism basically just removes the middle class, and you are left with rich and poor. This has happened since the beginning of society. It is caused by human nature and will never change. No matter how you "spread" the wealth someone will find a way to exploit people for money. There was a study on this not to long ago which showed a natural curve that occurs in all societies. There is some issues with tax breaks and i believe these are what harm societies the most. Corporate tax breaks i think should be given to those that dont produce in other countries just because their corporate hq is within the states. I would like to see tax breaks for companies that keep at least 65% of their business within the country. I also believe companies should be given incentive to pay higher wages, provide healthcare(not forced), and help with retirement of its workers. Pensions and 401k matching needs to come back. Companies have gotten very greedy and no longer care for those who helped build their business. This is why there is no company loyalty anymore. They dont care about you, why should you care about them? Now on individual taxing, this is what needs to change the most. The tax ceiling needs to go. Being taxed on only $200k is bs. It only harms the poor. You should be taxed on all income no matter how much you make. Made $8 million, get taxed on $8 million. The super rich hardly get taxed and it creates issues in which there is not enough tax money to properly allocate funds to other projects, like the education system. Sorry for the rant, i too have thought quite a bit on this.

Capitalism is about the privatization of production where trade is controlled by the private sector, and the free market regulation of basic commerce. It's beyond stupid if you think an economic system is emotionless. It's a simply a system in which things work, and it's the most effective system to maximize a countries economic potential. Yeah, people have to make profits, but that doesn't mean you have to step on the poor to do it. A capitalist system is the only one where you have a chance of coming from the bottom class to the upper class, and the market will let you do that. And who says workers aren't taken care of? You need to get off the computer and experience the real world. Workers are offered many benefits in practice and theory doesn't even claim you shouldn't give workers some compensation. And no one who can get a higher paying job will work a $3/hr job. That's why kids enter the job market with low paying jobs. Obviously they don't intend to work those jobs for the rest of their life. The only people who will get those jobs are people who are desperate or entry level workers, so the notion that these jobs won't be passed up for others is beyond stupid. It's pretty obvious you don't know how capitalism or people work. Pick up an econ book or something.

The only way capitalism doesn't exploit people is if it is regulated to within an inch of its life. And it isn't, not in the US, or in many countries at all.

Yes it can. By using automation to eliminate unskilled labour positions!

lol America isn't even capitalist

Read Grapes of Wrath. Unless you have already, in which case you should reread it. Then think, of the orange farmers and the winners and family as losers. It sucks, because you know the family so well. In essence, capitalism pushes that notion. Anyone, however can be a winner, don't feed me that bullshit about set classes and how 99% of wealth is controlled by 1% because that's not the problem. The problem is that everyone is too good for their job and don't want build a career. I don't need a -blam!-ing million dollars. It would be sweet...so sweet, but I can support my family with 43k a year comfortably in the city we live in now. I'm 25, so I've got plenty of room for economic growth, on top, of the fact that my wife finished her degree and will be working soon. If she brings in another 20k a year, which is low, but it's more than the girls and boys who whine and quit their jobs. 64k a year, living in the same, house with both cars paid off and balanced credit bills. That's middle class winning. That's capitalism: competition and the drive to win.

Communism is a dream.

Always look to the Swanson pyramid of greatness

How can pure capitalism be real if our eyes aren't real?

No. Pure Capitalism is pretty much what we have now sans the benefits such as workman's comp, 8 hour work day, vacation time, safe workplace, no child labor, labor laws, etc. These luxuries that companies and employers have to provide to their employees were socialistic policies that were fought for in the late 1800's to the 1930's by working class citizens, and often, they were bloody encounters. Before those happened, companies could easily manipulate and control who works under them without any repercussions or care of what happened to the workers. It wasn't until many strikes and massacres later that these provisions for the working class citizen were put into place. Pure Capitalism CANNOT and will NEVER exist without exploiting the poor and working class citizens.

Currency was the worst invention by the human race.

Yes. It would require the human race to stop being a collective pile of asshats, however.