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This is a little long-winded, but I think a shorter summary might be this: we should look for ways to set goals, then draw from the largest possible toolkit to meet those goals, and avoid assigning assumptions that a given tool is universally good or universally bad.
I would agree with that. I'll add that I have criticisms of capitalism, but I feel like I need to go out of my way to explain to people that they're not some blanket rejection of the concept whole-cloth. They're based on its utility for the set of conditions we're in. I'm fully willing to acknowledge the circumstances in which capitalism is effective. It's just that those circumstances don't match our present situation well.