[ywei3410]

I see you didn't bother to read past the first few words; but I'll be charitable and explain why this is _reducto ad absurdum_.

First, we're talking about capitalism as a economic system which has only been in place for ~200 years. I think you'd be hard pressed to find any capitalist which would give credit to capitalism before the birth of capitalism. If your critique is based on the fact that capitalism is a successful economic system and better than what came before it, I fail to see where I suggest the opposite view. To suggest it's the _best_ possible system is rather more difficult.

Second, wealth has no definition without some form of economic system. Is wealth the free time that someone has, the trinkets or baubles that someone owns or their lifespan? By all accounts capitalism has done wonders for the second and third measures of wealth (arguments that technology and scientific progress which capitalism doesn't tend to fund notwithstanding). The first I'm unsure about; census data only shows since the 1970's and of course we have the massive bump due to a doubling of the demographic who are working.