Indeed, the post asks more questions than giving answers, however in general I think we can agree that the model of capitalism has unleashed a ton of innovation and energy that led to the high living standards that we know today. The awesome rewards from manufacturing and selling ever improving goods has been a very effective harness in giving entrepreneurs incentive for taking the risks needed to start up businesses. Up until now, we've mostly seen the positive impacts of capitalism and the extreme weaknesses of other systems.

However, I think we can also agree that most things are not black and white, and capitalism has its flaws. While some level of income inequality is needed for capitalism to work, at some point those who have become super wealthy may find that manipulation of politics and crushing potential competition provides greater returns than in trying to produce and sell ever improving products. I think that these greedier aspects of capitalism are its weakness and may come back to bite us and in some ways already has. Worldwide pollution is getting worse, extreme income inequality is rising and at some point we have to ask if these additional prices which lead to additional human suffering are worth paying. I guess so far that fishermen can't pay the right amount of money to clean up the oceans; even though healthy oceans help us all.

But what to do about it? Hard to say but to start with I think healthy conversations that don't degrade into name calling is a start, but in some places even that's hard to do... Or even agreement that these are problems worth addressing...