No, harsh experience with Communist, socialist and Fascist regimes shows this is a universal human problem, with far worse e.g. environmental results. If you have independent companies do stuff, the government(s) they operate under, and people using the mechanisms of those governments, tend to check them. The alternatives remove those checks altogether.
Consolidating power tends to cause these sort of issues. It doesn't matter what the label of the system is, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Capitalist.
While capitalism "won" these battles in the past and is better than authoritarianism, at the present moment, capitalism is destroying us all. Our version of capitalism is the new authoritarian regime evolving toward fascism. Like any authoritarian regime, our capitalism has effective marketing & it's believers.
"She died a famous woman denying her wounds; denying her wounds came from the same source as her power"
-- Power, by Adrienne Rich (About Marie Curie)
So the answer is not as simple as sprinkling some "capitalism" on it. We need more love of self & others, more transparency, more equality, environmental protection, systemic design, awareness of the impact of our actions, awareness of politics, decentralization, less emphasis on money and more emphasis on community, etc.
"If you name me, you negate me. By giving me a name, a label, you negate all of the other things I could possibly be." -- Søren Kierkegaard.
The answer is not a label. The answer is our actions. That is who we are.
"We need more love of self & others, more transparency, more equality, environmental protection, systemic design, awareness of the impact of our actions, awareness of politics, decentralization, less emphasis on money and more emphasis on community, etc."
How do you propose to bring about a more utopian society with the above characteristics?
How plastic do you think human nature is?
(Note that I came of political age during the tail end of the cultural '60s. I have heard all of the above before....)
> How do you propose to bring about a more utopian society with the above characteristics?
Individual people have to care about these values & resist the imposed values of ego, greed, competition, materialism, ridicule, nationalism, violence, being "right", "getting mine", etc. It takes people leading & living the life of these values. If others resonate with these new values, then a movement is built.
All I can do is love myself & others. I see my own life as an archetype of our greater successes & failures; doing my work has a positive impact on those around me.
> (Note that I came of political age during the tail end of the cultural '60s. I have heard all of the above before....)
Like anything else of nuance, it takes creative iteration.
The '60s changed our understanding of freedom, love, & compassion. The upheaval healed, perpetuated, & created trauma on our souls.
The '60s had a lot of energy breaking social bounds. Sex, drugs, & rock-n-roll, while liberating, is not necessarily the most sustainable emphasis.
Many people went down a more esoteric path learning about ego & love. We can utilize our advances in communication, social understanding, global reach, experience, etc to shift our values to be harmonious with each other & our environment. It's necessary to our survival, so I have faith that we will evolve, just like we have many times in the past (i.e. tools, fire, civilization, etc).
