I have always had some misgivings about capitalism. Well, I, for one, appreciate that you laid this out as the first sentence of your paper/blog post. And I'l

I have always had some misgivings about capitalism. Well, I, for one, appreciate that you laid this out as the first sentence of your paper/blog post. And I'll agree to a point; capitalism is the worse system there is, besides everything else of course. No economic system devised will ever be able to directly fix the problems of "lack-of-humanism" that you so describe. As shredprez succinctly put it, "there is no effective way to control the inequities of power." The best our system...any system...can hope to achieve is to try to guarantee equality of opportunity, but not equality of outcome. Market-based systems such as capitalism have this feature baked into its' DNA, as the market can never afford to marginalize any individual or effort, via political means, that could threaten a working business model. Although the plutocrats certainly try their best. Blockchain technologies certainly have the potential to shake things up, unless, of course, its crypto gets cracked soon, which many here seem to think will be the case. [edits]