>>24571316
>What is to be done? Capitalism is literally destroying humanity
Regulate capitalism through state-intervention. Unironically the chinese model but without the retarded elements.

>>24571655
>>24571668
>>24572179
>>24575573
It's genuinely amazing that people don't understand that capitalism isn't simply trade between private individuals.

>capitalism is a system where the economy is oriented towards the benefit of private individuals.
You can have market characteristics like supply and demand with a control of the state and general directions (socialism, you can have market characteristics with a upper aristocratic class who's role is to defend their territories (feudalism), you can have market characteristics with a religious model which bans certain goods (theocracy), you can have market characteristics but with limits as to how much capital can have and their respective share of the means of production (distributivism) etc

I'd even go at length and say that to define a system, rather than searching for its core, we should instead observe its instantiation in the real world. Capitalism in that sense deploys itself as an ethical system valuing the merit of the individual, interpreting reality through the eyes of a rational and educated individual, letting individuals benefit from the economy who's domain should be reserved entirely to them. This idea of course has problems because the interests of individuals often comes in conflict with the state, the nation, religion etc. And the very obvious answer is to realize that we are not doomed to be subject to the economic whims of certain individuals but that we instead have tools to control the economy.