Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
Drinking your own Kool-Aid a bit much?

Nothing on that kind of pedestal is going to live up to the elevation.
This isn't guesswork. The field of economics has long since come to the same conclusion. Economics is the study of how resources are produced, distributed, and consumed. Market capitalism is the paradigm by which the modern world has produced, distributed, and consumed resources. If you were to ask an economist who specializes in economic history, he would tell you the world of consumer products we have today emerged from market capitalism and that if instead the paradigm had been any of the other popular paradigms, there is no way to say that the same results would have come and it is likely the results would have been far less productive.