Capitalism needs a bottoms up and not a top down approach. As far as regulations go, need is required. Sometimes what's cheapest isn't the best, so making the best assessment of all things considered is important. I think it's possible for the government to properly regulate industries in ways like a tax to not produce in certain countries. Call it a fine tax, if you want, but it could be used to tell a company to get out or suffer severe consequences, they will move to avoid. You can do so in a reasonable time period.
Well you can also reward companies for good citizenship instead of the stick, more carrots
But yes, bottom up approach or it isn't democratic, it isn't egalitarian, it isn't user friendly, it doesn't "taste good" for the majority.
If people want to sell capitalism then they have to accept that there may be competition to their model of it.
If they're so confident that their model is better, then they should not fear competing models.
Instead they're trying to couch it in terms of a threat, and that's crossing the line.
Capitalism is a system but it's also a product, because people have to believe in it in order for it to work.
In order to SELL capitalism, the salesmen are going to have to once again go back to the time tested and workable idea of sweetening the deal, a "new deal", where capitalism is a tool to serve working class, blue collar, middle class white collar working families first.
In 1932 Will Rogers, the celebrated cowboy poet and humorist, said this about trickle down, and it is still relevant today:
"This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year. They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.
The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.
Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up.
Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.
But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.
They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue."
What followed was thirteen years of Roosevelt and the New Deal.
But the Republicans didn't even wait two years
to try and violently overthrow Mister Roosevelt.
And yet WE are the ones being cast as the violent thugs.
PROJECTION, pure Alinskyite projection.
The Trump Right has been cribbing off Alinsky's notes for ten years now.
(starting with the Tea Party)
They think we're not hip to it.
Thing is, about Alinsky, his stuff was for minority groups which are seeking to take power from the LARGE groups, and his writings offer
NOTHING about HOW TO LEAD once you HAVE taken power.
The reason that the Left shelved the Alinsky book fifty years ago is because we took power back then and then we had to sit down and think about how to lead and govern, which required other books and advice instead of Alinsky's.
Trump Republicans snatched up that book and despite winning the trifecta, they kept using that book anyway even once in power.
And that is partly why they lost so big in November 2018 and it's definitely why they're going to lose bigger in 2020.
They don't know when to put down the attack propaganda book.
For the Left it was like assembly instructions.
For Trump Republicans, it's like CRACK COCAINE.
They get a high or a buzz from pissing off normal people who happen to disagree with them.