But I didn't say anything about communism, we're talking about capitalism. Though I also don't understand how communist states cannot have economies of scale x)

But I didn't say anything about communism, we're talking about capitalism. Though I also don't understand how communist states cannot have economies of scale x) What I'm saying is that capitalism was concurrent with a too many developments and transformations, for us to be able to simplistically say "capitalism creates prosperity" (let alone the even stronger "capitalism creates prosperity and nothing else can").