Sure, if we had moved past capitalism, we could have eliminated poverty by now. And if we had moved past the light-speed limitation, we'd be traveling amongst

Sure, if we had moved past capitalism, we could have eliminated poverty by now. And if we had moved past the light-speed limitation, we'd be traveling amongst the stars by now. So why don't we just do that? As is often said, capitalism is the worst economic system we've come up with . . . except for all the others. The trick to moving past capitalism is not regressing backward from it. Some big regressions famously happened in recent centuries with our big experiments in public ownership. Unfortunately, large scale public ownership has some complications that tend to result in large scale death. What new system would you propose that is better?