Capitalism is not the issue, Goverment is

Exactly. In pure capitalism there isn’t even any government. There can be some local councils, and it’s mostly based on volunteerism.

I wouldn’t even call capitalism the best system, because in essence it’s the absence of a system. It’s the absence of regulation and power. In capitalism (at least in theory) no one has power over another person.

An argument can be made for regulations of course, with the classic example of pollution. Many opponents of capitalism would use the example of a factory dumping their toxic waste in a river that runs through their land. Everyone agrees this must be illegal, the argument for it is just different. Statists see it as justification of man’s evil, and that government must keep him under heel. In capitalism, you can simply note that the river in its entirety doesn’t belong to the factory owner, hence he has no right to damage it. And even if he owned the entire river, he still doesn’t own the ocean

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Or any other system for that matter. Monarchism, theocracy, fascism, imperialism, just about any ism out there caused untold deaths. Capitalism (not corporatism) is the one which didn’t.

As you stated, there is no perfect system. I’d say there isn’t even a good system and never has been one. Capitalism, being an absence of a system, is the best choice. It’s the closest to natural law we can get.