Global capitalism has written off the human race

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I am being discrimanated against, at most auto parts stores. They keep trying to sell me the wrong part.

My defense is bringing the old one, and seeing if it will bolt up.

So making people serve you does not assure a quality product.

Having worked behind plumbers, mechanics, I found some shoddy work when I knew they were trying.

They are supposed to be experts, and I upset them. Some are better, my best auto parts says come here, and shows me what they have, and let me figure it out. Sometimes it takes two or three places to get the parts for one job.

On the other hand I have been a mechanic and contractor, and the customers do not know what they want.

Fix it, can mean make it run for a few days, to a total rebuild.

I have turned down a lot of potential customers who did not know what they wanted, except to get even with some prior mechanic. Everyone has them, and they want to destroy you, they are paying, so they think they bought you.

The bad customer is well know in business. Suddenly I am booked for months when they show up. Some do not pay, some sue people, and some are worse. No law would make me deal with them.

Public services, transport, food, lodging, are different. Something offered to the public, as long as they are clean, sober, quiet, and have a credit card for insurance.

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

You do not have a right to make a lawyer represent you, or a doctor treat you.

I do not discriminate, I hate them all equally, dumb hairless ground apes, but some are trying to overcome it.

New Orleans being half black has discrimination, most murder is black on black, black comes in eight shades, they all distance themselves from the others, and they have a public space persona, which they use to get something done.

We have unequal relationships. Finding our common space with one other person keeps the world running.

Our employment law comes from English Master/Servant Law, and employees behavior is restricted, where the Master is not.

Finding working space between the unequal is what makes it work.

Being human cannot be regulated by law because they are all different.

Where we can find common ground, everything works across all cultures.

As I see it, the biggest problem with modern capitalism is that it is unsustainable, being based on endless growth on a planet of finite resources. We do not consider that the human economy is one part of a yet far wider, and yet far more necessary, thing, which is the biosphere itself, and that humans draw our resources from and output our wastes into it.
I am in total agreement that a 'free' market would damage other aspects of society which are important to people. In essence, the idea of a free market is sacrificing actual human well-being for the abstraction of the well-being of the 'market' or 'economy', or for abstractions like 'freedom'.
In response to adb, who was of the opinion that economics is value-free: yes, economics itself should aspire to be value-free as a science, but decision-making should not be. Economics should merely be one factor in what is actually done, which should be done to maximise happiness for the greatest number of people. What is economically expedient is but one factor within many complex and interrelated ones.
A theme running through this thread has been freedom and coercion. It is my opinion that a minimum of coercion is needed to keep humans from being particularly nasty to each other and making stupid decisions (that is, more so than those doing the coercing), although changing social conditions and attitudes is a much better way to achieve this. Any more than a minimum of coercion is morally unjustifiable, and an authority making bad decisions and being nasty itself (which is pretty much always the case) is unjustifiable. Rules are necessary, but rulers should be avoided whenever possible.