Capitalism is the free market system. It’s the one where to get something from someone, you have to get them to agree to give it to or trade it to you.

Private ownership, voluntary exchange. Capitalism. If you consider this to be “civilization”, that’s great. So do I. Trade is civilized. Consent to exchange goods is civilized. It’s also called a free market.

Capitalism is civilization. That’s a great way to put it.

If capitalism happens at the expense of the masses, why are the masses getting wealthier? That doesn’t make any sense.

Capitalism, civilization, whatever you want to call the places where people only work together willingly, those so-called “free markets”, those places produce enormous quantities of wealth, and everyone in them gets wealthier. Those are the places you have your main problems being obesity, addiction to endless entertainment and novelty, boredom. Wealthy people problems.

Civilization is a comfortable place. I’ve been in both places and I’d sooner choose to be fat, addicted to video games and pot, and bored, before I would choose to be malnourished, cold, and scared.

I mean, unless there’s something fun going on in the second one, and I know it’s going to end in finite time