[toasterlovin]

Care to elaborate?

Most of these cults/communes don't make it past the first decade. The longest lasting ones rarely make it past a century.

So far "capitalist individualism" seems to have a better track record than that.

[rbanffy]

Capitalism, when not regulated, tends to increase inequality. This will, eventually, lead to instability and a societal reset.

[toasterlovin]

Capitalism doesn't need to be perfect in order to be a better system for organizing a society than communism.

[rbanffy]

OTOH, communism doesn't need to be perfect to be better than unregulated capitalism.

[Symmetry]

We've tried almost entirely unregulated capitalism. Inequality increased, but only up to a point. It didn't increase without bound.

[zbyte64]

Before that we had other systems that lasted just as long. Mercantilism had a good run for 3 centuries.