[arvinsim]

> What is the better alternative? I have not heard of a society that has succeeded to incentive people on a large scale without the possibility of profit.

Have society really taken on learned helplessness on a mass scale? In a sense that everyone has a defeatist attitude of "we can't think of any system better than current capitalism so why change?"

Or is it more probable that there are some vested interest in keeping the status quo?