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CMV: Capitalism is neither inherently good nor bad, but rather a neutral system where whether or not it leads to prosperity for the general populace is largely dependent on the morality of the people in a capitalist society (especially the rich/powerful people).

To be clear, I'm not arguing for or against capitalism. Under capitalism, people are allowed to give money or possessions to anyone they want. Therefore, voluntary socialism could exist within a capitalist society, and gigantic differences in wealth do not have to exist.

No rules within capitalism prevent people from organizing a system where, for example, people's income is voluntarily capped at $1 million per year, and whatever other money is made gets voluntarily donated to those in need. You could say that's naive to think that something like this would happen in a capitalist society, but I'm not saying that it would. I'm saying capitalism allows for something like this to happen, but it requires a general populace with a certain type morality. The opposite is also true. Capitalism could obviously allow for a nightmare of needless death and suffering.

As to what further conclusions can be drawn from this, I'd say that perhaps capitalism is not one of the main problems or solutions in the world. Perhaps one of the main problems in the world is that humans generally have a hard time sufficiently valuing the well-being of those they don't know.
gpt
You could say the same thing about any structure of society. Absolute monarchy, feudalism, theocracy, totalitarian dictatorship, chattel slavery, etc.

None of these are "inherently bad", in the sense that they are just hierarchical power structures where a few  people hold an enormous amount of authority over others, and those people oftent happen to end up being oppressive, but theoretically they might as well be good.

But if we can agree that democracy is better than dictatorship, that abolishing slavery is better than hoping that some slave owners will end up being nice, then the same principle can be applied to economic inequality too. People holding comparable amounts of societal power, is a good in and of itself, because it avoids the need to hope that the powerful few will take mercy on their subjects.