>>10895286This is actually a very false statement that everyone believes for some reason. Capitalism, in the version you define it - a system of trade where a single entity is present within multiple nations and is influenced by nothing but the desire for personal profit and the laws of the nation, is actually present since the Bronze Age and is the very reason for the instant boom and the transition of primitive societies to ones with a very complex social structure and set of laws, almost equivalent to what we have right now and definitely right next to the empires of 2000 years ago, while also being the very first time that people started migrating from rural regions into cities who then created wealth by other means and traded that wealth with the rural regions for food that wasn't obviously grown in the cities (in other words, exchange of goods through a central currency that was precious metals).
The problem is then, how come Rome didn't form in that period and why did we go through such a wide gap of irrelevance before civilization restarted itself in about 300-400 BC? The answer is because we collapsed, we were in fact not ready for such a rapid unrestricted expansion brought about by capitalism and the serious dependence of cities upon rural imports led to every single one of them starving in the (hypothesized) drought that collapsed civilization, and all the progress plus urban development was lost for another 800 years, with cities being completely depopulated.
So think about it for a little bit and try comparing the exact same unrestricted expansive force of capitalism to something we might as well have in modern days, and try figuring out what I'm talking about. Once you see the connection you'll realize why capitalism is actually an immature system of resource management. Kind of an off-topic post, but you said
>Not sure why pin the blame on it.There's a lot more blame to be pinned to capitalism, and soon enough, magnitudes more.
