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Capitalism is the best system we've got because capitalism killed every other system, not due to any virtue on capitalism's part.
I'd be down to try just about anything else at this point.
Killing other systems is a form of "virtue" though, because as idealistic as anyone wants to be, whatever system we make will exist in a competitive ecosystem. Want to make a functional communism? Well, it has to be able to survive assaults from capitalism. A system cannot just be "moral" or "good", it also has to be strong or ruthless enough to protect it's existence from the many forces which will seek to destroy it.
Yes, capitalism has been forced on us at gunpoint, literally (as in Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything)
This serial killer is the best doctor weve got, because hes wearing an eye necklace of every other hospital employee.
At first blush that sounds insane, but reality these days is giving The Onion a run for its money.
He may not have ever been to medical school (except during the 05 massacres) but he can pass for a nearly competent orthopedjc surgeon!