Nothing prepares you for the death of a child. Nothing teaches you how to live with it. - Maureen F. McHugh

So what's wrong with capitalism?"
He sighs. For a minute I wonder if maybe he's a capitalist. But then he says, "It's not a fair system."
"That's stupid," I say. "Things aren't fair. Only little kids expect things to be fair.

So he starts by asking me what I know about capitalism.
“People were rich and there was a lot of corruption and a lot of crime,” I say. “And now we have socialism and people are poor and there’s a lot of corruption and a lot of crime.”
He laughs. Anything I say about politics makes him laugh.

I suppose to him it looks as if I threw everything away, but how can he understand how our choices are taken from us? He doesn’t even understand freedom and what an illusion it really is.