I more meant the isolated communities who have bypassed the industrialized world entirely. They'll be gone soon.
I agree Changeup, that's why I suggest capitalism is a phase. Undoubtedly progress but just a finite stage of it. I think it obstructs human development in as many ways as it helps.
I agree however...
As far as human cultural economic systems go, capitalism provides opportunities and rewards that cannot be found in any other form of mercantilism. I believe the adjustments can be made over time to perfect it without damaging the model nor rewarding the wicked. In order for this to happen, it must be prioritized at the University level, the business level and the government level. The country's brightest could be brought to bear on our system to make it better but we do not. It's an accepted patch-work quilt of operability with government regs operating on the periphery to make changes. We currently walk over dollars to save pennies and that does not benefit the people. Economists know this but have little or no influence over changing the system. Think of them as financial climatologists...their models are questioned by layman, their words are twisted and contorted, and their evidence is in theories that take many years to unfold. That is the unfortunate truth. It will be capitalism's demise...a slow, horrible, painful death that morphs into a system of even more people with less.
The capitalist economy of our great country simply needs attention. Satan resides soundly in the burden of managing the minutia.
