[sebastianconcpt]

The article is a piece of revolutionary rant.

> Capitalism is unnatural, and selects for unnatural things.

Wrong. Even plants have a conspicuous signaling economy to get their way to selection.

[flossly]

Signalling = markets.

Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.

[dag100]

TFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.

[sassbadger]

Economy/Markets != Capitalism

[flossly]

There's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested):

https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...