If you think profit doesn't relate to human welfare directly then I welcome you to head into any economically depressed third world village and turn it into a u

If you think profit doesn't relate to human welfare directly then I welcome you to head into any economically depressed third world village and turn it into a utopia. Oh wait, you can't maintain the sizable bureaucratic structure and intellectual workforce when over 90% of the population is engaged in subsidence farming by necessity in order to not die of starvation. You quite literally take the productivity of capitalism for granted and assume that its products are simply the natural state of existence, and that in the absence of the evil capitalist you would have instant magical utopias. Such folly is like thinking that if you got rid of the evil and heavy pollution-spewing engine burdening your car, you would then go even faster without any of that pollution. The work being performed is vital, even though it is outside of your ideologically blinkered willful inability to understand. The rapid growth of education depended upon capitalism and the rise of paper-making and printing operations which themselves are dependent upon profit seeking and the price discovery mechanisms. More importantly it depended upon there being a market for books a middle class which could usefully apply those results. If you find yourself wondering "why didn't revolutionary invention X, Y, or Z take off at this period even further in the past" the usual answer you get is that they lacked an essential prerequisite for its deployment.