Comment Re: Yes, probably. And they likely can do even (Score 1) 222
They didn't make capitalism to be nonfunctional.
There's no "they" that made capitalism intentionally. It evolved, it wasn't designed. But if it had been, it would have been designed to keep the wealthy on top and the rest of us under foot, and that's what it would have been doing when functioning "correctly". Adam Smith has been called by many the father of capitalism, but that's nonsense. He was describing the workings of a system which predated him.
Capitalism was arguably created (though still not invented) by the merchants who superseded kings. The monarchs needed money, but they needed the people with the talent for making it to collect it, and those people gained their own power and moved the levers. But they were competitors more than collaborators, which is the only reason we haven't all been completely screwed for centuries already. If they cooperated and carved us and our resources up among them deliberately they would have subjugated us all long ago. Now technology has made it possible to meaningfully control the mobb instead of just hoping to lead it to where you want it to go.