"And your problem is shopping?"

...in the long violent saga of mankind we have rarely done anything as benign as going shopping, rarely devised anything as socially advantageous as property rights and the rule of law, rarely enriched the poor or enhanced lives as we did by creating capitalism.

War, pestilence.  And your problem is shopping? 

Daniel Finkelstein in the London Times on whether there is a fairer, more rational alternative to capitalism.