The balance

Capitalism isn’t magical. It’s both an economic and political system. It is a way to organize people, not the way. And the balance we can’t seem to achieve is this:

Social progress is often left at the expense of capitalism. If there is no market incentive (profits), why bother? But of course, we can’t live in that world. People exist in it. And we are not here to serve capitalism. Capitalism is here to serve us. When critiquing capitalism, we recognize the benefits it can bring and the areas it also exploits. I’m proposing to tip the scale back toward social progress, and yes, at the expense of capitalism.