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Guess trolls on /books/ get butthurt a lot easier than compared to any other board.
On the topic here, Capitalism doesn't automatically translate to a wealthy society. What a free market does is that it allows those individuals who do want to pursue wealth the legitimate way to do so unobstructed. If they succeed they will enjoy the full benefit of their success. And if they fail, they, and anyone else who choose to join their enterprise, will be the only ones who take the fall.
No regulations, no bailouts, 100% personal responsibility.
Capitalism doesn't automatically create an utopia, no political system will ever do. But it is the only econ-political system that will allow the creation of an utopia.
All other political system will act to pull the society downwards. Capitalism doesn't pull it anywhere.