ultimately, i agree with your final point. and i would be a real boastful idiot to claim that one predefined, prescribed economic system is going to bring about

ultimately, i agree with your final point. and i would be a real boastful idiot to claim that one predefined, prescribed economic system is going to bring about utopia; i just fundamentally do not want to engage with ideologies that promote profit or self-interest (when that self-interest becomes harmful to others) because to me, those are thought-terminating ideologies. i don't have any answers. i'm just sad about the world all the time. and maybe i get worked up too easily but we are definitely in the midst of a very weird and terrible inflection point in american history (let alone the rest of the world).