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CMV: Despite its flaws, I think that capitalism is the world system with the highest chance of success.

This isn't a new argument by any means, but I've been increasingly broadening my knowledge of other political ideologies for the sake of my own understanding, and can't find a world system (maybe socio-economic system is the word here?) That would work better than capitalism.

The ideologies I've mainly looked into have been communism and anarchism because I have a few close friends that hold those views. We vehemently disagree when it comes to this but I figure I should at least hear them out.

I've looked at NonCompete and PhilosophyTube among other popular youtube channels and have found that, particularily anarchism, has a lot of fundamental problems that wouldn't allow it to function on a large scale. Capitalism, on the other hand, still has its flaws but remains the most popular ideology in the world even among the "common people". This is being offset rapidly by a newer generation of mainly left alligned college students who seem to want to make a change, but can't get momentum or support beyond protests or small rallies.

Anyway, I look forward to having some good conversations, I'll reply to as many people as I can.
gpt
>Capitalism, on the other hand, still has its flaws but remains the most popular ideology in the world even among the "common people". This is being offset rapidly by a newer generation of mainly left alligned college students who seem to want to make a change, but can't get momentum or support beyond protests or small rallies.

If popularity is your definition of success, then it would be impossible to argue with you.

But in any case, that doesn't make capitalism a success for eternity. Plenty of contradictions remain in the system. For example, people with more capital will have more power than those with less capital, or no capital. They have the power to influence elections and keep themselves in power. Capitalists who run businesses could never pay workers the value of their effort, otherwise capitalists would not earn any money. And they are often, if not always, encouraged to profit more than sacrifice some for the workers. This motivates greed and exploitation. Workers' livelihood depends vastly on their occupation, hence owners will have power over many people's happiness and well-being. Workers are materially at the whim of their bosses.

Capitalism will not correct these flaws on its own. As popular as it is around the world, the critiques of capitalism could be just as popular, since the division of power and society are not so superficial nor obvious. It must be first understood that in a capitalist system, the people in power are capitalists and disproportionately in power.