The point of capitalism isn’t to escape capitalism. It’s to maximize the efficiency of the distribution of goods and services. Over time, capitalism unlike every other economic system, has proven that it is better than all other alternatives at creating such efficiencies, and not only does it maximize the efficiency of the system, it grows the total economy faster and larger than any other system ever implemented.

The result of this is improved standards of living for more humans than any other time in the history of the species — both in absolute terms and in per capita terms, a trend which shows absolutely no signs of abating or even of slowing down. In the past 50 years it raised one billion people out of abject poverty, and in the next 50 years it will raise three billion more.

Being raised out of abject poverty means that all those people have lives totally unlike their ancestors back to the time they walked out of Africa. They have longer lifespans. Their children die less frequently. They are less hungry less of the time. They know more about the world, can communicate with others in ways impossible to the abjectly poor, and are able to spend their life energy even further improving their situation — something abjectly poor people cannot do, because they are already using their max life energy just to stay alive.

Capitalism is what is causing this epic change in the human condition.