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But the bad thing about capitalism is that things that are hard (or impossible) to quantify are, at best, an afterthought.

It's actually worse than that. Capitalism cannot on its own deal with negative externalities even when they are quantifiable.

You solve that through government regulation. But when government is bought and sold by businesses who would prefer costs be externalized as much as possible, the outcomes are... less than ideal.