I have little faith in humanity, but I think that humanity is capable of far better than capitalism. Capitalism invented hunger amid plenty. Currently, more than 800 million people around the world are undernourished. Meanwhile, about a dozen people hold wealth equal to the assets of the poorest half of the people on the planet: Capitalism does not create wealth, it funnels it up to the wealthy. Moreover, references to the supposed golden age of 20th century capitalism are moot. Those days are gone. In the era of rampant financialization and where some of the top companies in the world (google, facebook, apple) are able to survive producing goods with zero marginal cost only because they operate as quasi monopolies, we are one crash away from the point where people will have to choose between democracy and capitalism.